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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Perhaps so. But we certainly have an existence proof of popular authors jumping ship over smaller issues than reliability of their publisher. For example because they don't agree with the ebook policy.
So... given their existing contracts, what are they supposed to do?
It's lots of fun to excoriate them as bad guys and idiots. It's much harder to make constructive proposals. What's YOUR great idea? How will you cut the gordian knot?
Xenophon
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Not like they haven't had YEARS to deal with that. Current stupid contracts their own doing. CEOS etc. are supposed to be forward-looking and strategic, it is why the pay the tossers the big bucks.
Firing a whole bunch of the people at the top a while back, or at least get rid of them now, given they were clearly lacking in the necessary vision.
Renegotiation doesn't exist in their language or world? Non-exclusivity? Not rocket science, here. A couple of the latter mightn't hurt at the top levels of publishing, though.
Failing that, if you are the Americans - you could just start grabbing the whole enchilada, perhaps. Want to be sold in the USA? Do this, or go away. They have the clout, they do it in other arenas, so not sure why they play nicey-nice when they could sell directly to everybody.