Thread: Books you would love to buy but can't....
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Old 02-28-2018, 06:37 PM   #103
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Originally Posted by crossi View Post
If the publisher who owns the ebook rights for an area, assuming it does own the rights and doesn't simply assume it has the ebook rights because it does have the paper rights, refuses to publish can't the author take those rights back and publish themselves? Of course that would mean lawyers, time and money fighting their publisher (non-publisher?)
The author can ask for the rights back and sometimes that happens. In the US, after 35 years, the rights now revert to the author in many cases. But in the case of an apparent orphaned author, chances are it will never be published again.
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