There's an interesting post at
The Speculative Scotsman about alleged stolen rights to an ebook under Night Shade at Baen books.
More information at the
author's website.
Quote:
Basically, despite the great things Night Shade Books has done for this book, this is not a publisher I can do business with anymore. They are either unable or unwilling to honor their contracts.
Night Shade has stolen the ebook rights to The Mall of Cthulhu. They do not own them and are offering an electronic edition for sale through webscription.net, which is affiliated with Baen Books, a real publisher who should know better. Nine months ago, Night Shade made a verbal offer to pay me a small sum for the rights. I agreed. They've never paid me. They claimed their unauthorized edition was an oversight, and that was somewhat credible at the time. Nine months later, it's clear that this is not an oversight. It's a theft of my intellectual property.
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Doesn't sound too nice, particularly since Baen get largely glowing praise from customers.
Anyway thought it might be of interest.