The advent of e-books and self-publishing has made it more difficult for writers to terminate their book contracts, attorney and author Susan Spann writes in a guide to negotiating "out-of-print status" language in publishing contracts: "Many older publishing contracts don’t tie out-of-print status to royalty-bearing sales. Instead, they tie out-of-print status to 'availability' (or, worse, give the publisher the unilateral right to declare the work out of print)."
April 1, 2016
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