Thread: Why e-books?
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Old 11-18-2016, 06:11 PM   #471
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Originally Posted by ratinox View Post
I disagree. It is a private contract when an author signs all rights to the work over to a publisher. The Constitution specifically forbids the US government from interfering with private contracts. Acts of Congress cannot change the Constitution.
I could say that's your country's way but I'm thinking that all rights to the work being signed away when one of those rights includes something that wasn't even possible at the time the contract was signed, therefore the author getting nothing for that particular right, is unfair.

Ebooks didn't exist and were not part of the contracts in the 20th century. It seems unfair that the author can't renegotiate, first with their current publisher and if that publisher has no interest in producing ebooks then with other publishers or have the ability to self publish those works.
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