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What makes it a certainty is that copyright law has a rarely discussed clause that can be used to reclaim copyrights, trumping vintage contracts after 25-35 years. https://www.copyright.gov/docs/203.html There are complex hoops to jump through but it is being increasingly being executed now that a lot of content has passed the required wait time and Indie publishing of books and music is a viable path, especially agent-assisted publishing. Zelazny is a big enough name that recovering the copyrights and either negotiating new print deals or setting up mini-imprints pays off, especially for ebooks and audio books. And it's not just musicians and authors recovering copyrights. It is increasingly happening on the video side: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/th...rights-1244737 Quote:
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Now if we were to report these eBooks for the error of having two covers, would they be fixed once Amazon took them down? |
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(Added illustrations are typically considered pluses.) What they with quality complaints is forward them to the publisher and let them choose to update or not. Indies tend to be very responsive. |
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As to non-legit ebooks in legit bookstores, it's an old problem they all police. Not perfectly, because nothing is, but most are pretty good.
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I declined since most people don't care about X-ray and IMO the problem was amazon's, not the publisher's. The X-ray never showed up. |
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When I buy a book from Amazon, I assume it's legitimate. How else can you reasonably be expected to deal with a merchant? It would be different if you were perusing ebooks at pirates.r.us.com. But Amazon is huge, and generally assumed to be a legitimate retailer. Customers should not be expected to have to dig in a research every product to validate it prior to purchase. If Amazon is selling illegal stuff, I say that is an Amazon problem, not a customer problem. Customers - in general - just do not have the knowledge, tools, or experience to ferret out illegal stuff offered for sale from a reputable retailer. You might be able to spot some super obvious fraud, but I doubt many ebooks fall into that small category. I have bought several ebooks from Amazon that look like they were proofread by a 3 year old, but that doesn't make me think they are not legit, ... just poorly done.
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Me, I've never heard of Lord of Lights, so I wouldn't know if it normally sells for $9.99 or is normally a free giveaway. Most of the books I buy are that way. For books that I know are by big name authors and might normally come with a high price tag, ... I borrow those from the library. And some books really surprise me. Take for example a Heinlein book from his juvenile series. Those books aren't cheap on Amazon, but seeing as how they are many decades old, and considered youth novels, I would have expected them to be $0.99 by now. So much for price predictions! |
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Traditional publishers sign contracts with Amazon. Indies are subject to terms of service. Both are liable for misrepresentation. Getting sued by Amazon is no fun. They don't check every single ebook but they spot-check enough to catch most phonies. And their system logs dupicate book titles. Given the scope of their catalog it is hard to slip in a pirate book given that the legit is very likely to already be there. It has been tried. Most often with Indies...who tend to check their sales regularly if not daily. So that too is hard. It's not easy to trick a well run store. That's why Google's problems faced so much griping. |
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Not sure the studio would mind much. I suspect a quiet settlement. Terminator has been run so deep underground after the last two movies I doubt Hurd will find much interest but Predator might benefit from (yet another) reboot. Maybe Marvel. Last edited by fjtorres; 01-11-2020 at 05:50 PM. |
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Zelazny?
He is really, really good. Of course, it hinges on your genre preferences. For SF he is "merely" good to great, for fantasy he ranges from great to historically significant. Not Tolkien but not far behind. Both of his biggest projects are in development for video. LORD OF LIGHT: https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/lord...in-development CHRONICLES OF AMBER: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-chronicl...gam-1783945517 Not fly by night outfits but his immagination isn't easy to adept. Only LENSMEN would be harder to get right. The project of his that screams to be adapted, though, is JACK OF SHADOWS. it is both great and adaptable and can be made into a stunning streaming series. It could incorporate the prequels as flashbacks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_Shadows |
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