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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Keeping a book "out of print" includes refusing to license digital rights or going exclusive with a given channel.
Think of Rowling keeping digital rights and refusing to do digital and when she finally caved, doing it through Sony instead of going through the established stores. There are plenty of authors that license audio or regional rights independently. Or not at all. At their discretion.
That is copyright control.
Saying no is part of the deal.
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...which has absolutely *nothing* to do with orphan works, which come to be when the rights-holder is unknown.
Shari