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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Are you thinking that a textbook company should have to keep publishing older editions? I don't see why.
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If baffles me how you could possibly think my point was about forcing publishers to
keep publishing something--anything. It was very clearly about publishers making a decision to
never publish a particular work
EVER, but refusing to ever relinquish their rights to it.
If they have no intention of ever publishing a book they own the rights to, then they need to either accept a reasonable buyout offer for those rights, or risk the rights reverting automatically to the author after a reasonable amount of time.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I fail to see the moral problem in selling all rights to what you write.
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So do I. I just also fail to see why doing so is typically the only option available.