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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
From what I've read, the problem with Zelazny may be the aftermath of an unpleasant divorce and the literary estate going to the ex-wife. Open Road Media seems to be one of the few publishers actively acquiring the backlist of living and dead authors. My guess is that most authors and literary estates overvalue the market value of their works, and most publishers think the ROI is too low for the advances the copyright holders are asking for.
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Yes, I've heard the same about the Zelazny books, though I believe that they were merely separated at the time of death which is why the estranged wife got the estate. As for the rest, that's basically what I said earlier in the thread. Some are orphans, meaning that the copyright holders may not even be aware they own the copyrights, others likely have little interest in seeing the work made available as ebooks since we are talking of sales in the thousands which means that they would barely recover their cost.