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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
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I did notice your earlier post. I do have the book from Baen and when I checked, I can still download it but Baen is no longer able to sell a new copy.
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
It's... frustrating because eBooks is obvious solution for when books are not quite popular enough to keep printing indefinitely. When they're unavailable it just pushes people toward acquiring them illegally.
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The right to sell the ebook is often a time limited contract and when it expires, that's all she wrote. One series that my wife liked and had purchased the first 5 books in had the last 3 disappear when the rights reverted to the author who wanted to negotiate new contracts for ebook sales. My wife actually ended up purchasing the books from the author's site at pretty much the same price but it took close to a year before the books showed up back at Amazon/Kobo/Google/etc.
I can't really blame the author since the original contract basically allowed the publisher to keep all the revenue from the ebooks. Even when the pbook rights reverted, she had to take the publisher to court since there was a claim that since there was no mention of ebooks in the original contract, the rights could not revert.