Ebook Deals 'Not Remotely Fair' On Authors

Ebook Deals 'Not Remotely Fair' On Authors
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Digital publishing deals locking writers in for the duration of copyright risk damaging industry, says Society of Authors chair
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/28235
http://www.guardian.co.uhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/12/ebooks-publishing-deals-fairk/books/2010/jul/12/ebooks-publishing-deals-fair
'...Publishers in negotiations with Amazon, or whoever, say they want two-year contracts because there's such flux, but at the same time are asking authors for the duration of copyright. It has to be wrong – it's not remotely fair," he said....'




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