Publishing attorney and author Susan Spann discusses how to make sure you recover your rights to your book if, for example, its sales have dropped to a low level or your publisher takes it out of print altogether: "If the contract doesn’t grant you termination rights, and publisher isn’t in breach, your options may well boil down to persuading the publisher to agree to termination — or waiting until the contract allows you to terminate without the publisher’s consent."
February 4, 2016