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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
Yup. Not to mention completely different rights, as acquired from the author. Many of the large houses don't even know, without a great deal of research, whether or not they own digital rights to items in their back catalog. It's coming up more and more, since a lot of authors these days are wanting to exercise e-rights for their OOP p-books.
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There was a flap over this between Random House and Rosetta a while back. Rosetta wanted to do electronic editions of some older titles originally published by Random House. The books had been written, contracts signed, and printed versions produced back before electronic books were even a gleam in someone's eye (and the manuscripts were hardcopies produced on typewriters...) Precisely who
does have electronic rights?
Current contracts include erights as one of the things covered, and also define just what is meant by "out of print" when ebooks and POD are part of the equation, but it's thorny for older books.
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Dennis