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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Baen does it right, but their example is of limited value for the issues in discussion.
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Sorry, I disagree. Publishers should not be buying books today without worldworld right agreements for online publishing, even if they have to settle for non-exclusive rights.
And they should be going back through the back catalogue and getting assigned online rights whereever possible and not explictly set otherwise, which is someone an academic author friend tells me they are still not doing (indeed, he has recovered the worldwide online rights for his works very cheaply indeed).
For the rest of it, they should be talking about revenue sharing and cooperation for the remainder of their catalogues. They're not, they're talking restrictions and DRM. This is the sound of the music industry's ghost stalking them, and it will reflect on all books, losing buyers.