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Originally Posted by pwalker8
What makes you believe that? HarperCollins certainly has the rights to sell the paper version of the books. They could simply be asserting that they also have the ebook rights as well. As far as not having standing, if someone else claiming to be EOS is doing so, then HarperCollins absolutely has legal standing to tell Amazon that it's not an EOS book. They still own the rights to that name.
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Many companies do this all the time--they have the print rights and assert claim on ALL the rights, especially in absence of a counter claim. If this is the case, they would be paying the author's estate under the same terms (most likely--assuming no estate signed different terms or argued against even worse terms). Publishers did this when ebooks became popular and many authors never fussed about it. Those who did, got their rights back and/or negotiated better contracts for the ebook. If no one at the estate is paying attention, they could easily be publishing the book under old contract terms since there has been no argument.