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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Nuts. Authors have complete control over their book's distribution. That's what the entire contract is about. If they signed a contract which failed to have the correct clauses, then the only way to get things to change is to cause commercial pressure on the publishers via informing the public and getting the authors to wise up in the future.
You're proving precisely why this sort of action is necessary.
(And no, most books are *not* contracted *that* far in advance...)
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I KNOW that you are wrong. You are guessing, you have no idea. You know a lot of best selling authors do you? Contracts are signed MONTHS if not a YEAR before the books are written. Especially in a series. Just because it is what you think is the case, does not make it the reality. You think people write a book and THEN sign the contract?
Well, good authors dont, anyway - their contract is a done deal well before pen is put to paper. Then the book is written.
Contracts that are being signed NOW will have this flexibility incorporated into them, then just as blogs, online forums are being built into business models, so will the ebook and its distribution be built into the book contract. But ebooks are a NEW thing to the majority of the population and this is a transition period. But doing stuff like this is simply crap.
Authors like JK Rollings are probably so well entrenched they can risk not putting their books into ebook form - believe it or not, ebookers are in the minority on this planet.