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Originally Posted by HarryT
I’d just note that this is NOT common practice at all. Publishing contracts do not transfer copyright to the publisher. The only area of publishing in which it is common is academic journal publishing. I’ve never, ever, heard of it happening with book publication. Can you give an example?
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Hi Harry
I cannot now remember the titles and authors but it came up in a panel at an Eastercon (main UK Science Fiction Convention) about twenty years ago in a discussion between two authors.
I have also come across it several times on the Internet. I never thought I would ever need to give anyone details so I did not keep them.
But the basic situation stuck a chord and I remembered the basic situation because I hate to think of any book being unavailable, even some of the stinkers I read as a teenager.