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Old 01-30-2010, 07:21 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon View Post
A war which Macmilian started by demanding control of the prices they set, or Amazon's ebook business could go swing. No, no sympathy for Macmilian in this now from me. Got a clause about recovering rights if they do this sort of thing? (I certainly have for the pnp RPG work I've done). If not, no direct sympathy for you either - just the advice to look to including it in future.
And you think any author (except maybe Rowling) can get a clause reverting rights if the publisher and one particular book distributor have a falling out? Not gonna happen. Perhaps your experience with RPG contracts gives you a misleading view of how book contracts work.

Not to mention that it would be stupid to try to pull rights to a book just because one retailer decided to pull something like this. What are you going to do with those rights? Who's going to buy them?
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