Thread: Douglas Borton [horror writer] - Where are the ebooks?
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Old 12-30-2021, 07:13 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Critteranne View Post
Too often, the authors die without setting up a literary estate (and often ages before ebooks were an option). Sometimes, their families don't want or allow the work to be reprinted, so it ends up in legal limbo. (That happened with J. N. Williamson, I think, and possibly John Steakley.) ...
That doesn't sound like legal limbo, that sounds like the way copyright is supposed to work?
The families own the copyright, they don't want it published, so it isn't published?
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