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Originally Posted by barryem
A good example of that are books by John O'Hara, an extremely popular and critically acclaimed author of the 40's and 50's. Quite a few movies were made from his books. I watched for those for years at Amazon and Gutenberg and other sites for years and then one day Amazon had "10 North Frederick". Within a year they had a lot of his books. That happened a couple of years ago as I recall.
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As I was reading that, was thinking "I know at least Appointment In Samarra is available..." then I read the rest
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Originally Posted by barryem
One more recent author that I especially like was Lee Gruenfeld. He was pretty popular 10 or 15 years ago and wrote some excellent novels. Today they're unavailable. I emailed him to let him know there's at least a little interest and I got a reply that it's not up to him. His publisher owns the rights and has no interest in making them available.
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That's a shame. If a book is out of print for X amount of time, the rights should revert to the author (assuming it is not a work for hire/shared universe book).
Of course, even that is no guarantee the author will be satisfied as Alan Moore could tell you.