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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Shouldn't they also ask for a courtesy ecopy to go with their courtesy pcopy?
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Indeed, nowadays, they absolutely should. The ePUB particularly; worst-comes-to-worst, you can make all the others from that with relative ease. Or someone can, if the author doesn't have the tech skills.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
I always insisted on as-published, DRM-Free copies in all three formats -- mobi, ePub, and PDF. Along with my 10 physical copies. And wrote it into the contract. If you write it into the contract, it's viewed as a trivial thing and they give it to you. If you wait, some jerk somewhere in the bureaucracy will want to say no.
(of course, I also have my original marked-up copies in Word format, but they will inevitably have some differences with the as-published work.)
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Ain't that the truth--the bureaucrat, that is. My author just went through that very thing. She DID have courtesy/author copies of her files, but a computer drive crash nuked them. Think that the DBag in charge of those files now, would give her a new set? Noooooooo.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Given that for quite a few older authors, ebooks were not something that was even considered when their contracts were signed, I can't blame them for not having 20-20 foresight -- 20-20 hindsight is so much easier.  |
Of course not, and that's not what I meant, I quite literally meant authors today signing with publishers.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Wait 'til all these new authors who were raised on ebooks start getting burnt on the rights to the injectable, or cortical-implant versions of their works. |
Oh, it would be
you who'd think of that! I'll pass on cortically-implanted books (or movies), thanks anyway. :-) With my luck, my movie or book would get stuck in a loop without a reboot button--or worse,
with one! (Yup, pull on my ear, and you get blue screen in my eyes until my brain comes back online....)
Hitch