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Originally Posted by ahi
What precisely is there to resolve? Unless you forgot to mention that he was not getting royalty payments for his eBook sales.
Or does your author wish to minimize the number of outlets selling his books and (indirectly) paying him royalties?
Forgive the snark, but you wrote as though having the book available for sale as an eBook was in and of itself something questionable.
- Ahi
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No, he's happy that his books are available as ebooks. I bought all of them at Fictionwise. I asked him about ebook sales and things like Amazon LookInside after reading CJ Cherryh's complaints about her books at Amazon, Fictionwise and Google, and his response was that when he first discovered one of his books was available for the Kindle, he checked with his agent, and confirmed that he was getting paid for it, and that permission for was covered in his contract with his publisher.
My posting was a bit vague because my original versions of the post directly suggested that CJ Cherryh needs to chat with her agent, lawyer and/or publishers, because I think there's a disconnect between what she believes is in her contracts with her publishers, and what the publishers believe are in her contracts. I am obviously not privy to those contracts, but I really think she's been maligning Amazon, Fictionwise and Google because of this misunderstanding, and that Amazon, Fictionwise and Google are not the parties at fault here. If she is right and they should not have been making her works available, I believe that Amazon, Fictionwise and Google were operating in good faith with the publishers, and that Ms. Cherryh should be complaining about her publishers. If she is having difficulties getting her works removed from their sites, I suspect that it's because they are dealing with both the author and publisher and are getting conflicting stories about what has been authorized for her works.