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Old 11-01-2009, 10:32 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
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.
For the most part, yes. There's still a whole lot of dickering going on over the definition of "out of print." Reversion clauses are still a sticking point nearly two years after the Authors Guild and S&S battled over the issue.

Not that I think the AG is infallible--the Google Books settlement is a travesty (see SFWA's take on it)--but in the S&S case they did a good job.
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