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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Any author who signs a contract that doesn't allow the author to get back the publication rights to book if the book goes out of print has been poorly advised.
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Yes, this can be true NOW. But plenty of rights assigned years ago and it was take the publisher terms or have nothing.
It's often still true for a first time published author. Fixed term rather than out of print is still common.
I totally agree it should be the norm. But there are loads of live authors and Estates where the book is out of print and the publisher still has the rights. The publishers are letting Amazon eat their lunch. It costs them nearly nothing to release a title via POD and they are only doing it for specialist technical books. Idiots.