Late at the end year, we wrote about a <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091213/1946477327.shtml”>legal fight</a>, where Random House was fighting some of its authors who claimed that their ancient publishing contracts did not cover ebooks. Those authors wanted to go off and publish ebooks via other partners (or much directly themselves). Random House tried to claim that much though the contracts didn’t specifically cover ebooks, that it was more or less implied. The difficulty, of direction, was that Random House had <i>already</i> <a href=”http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Random_House_v._Rosetta_Books” target=”_blank”>lost</a> a condition about this very issue years back. So, this April, the corporation was forced to <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100426/1619469180.shtml”>concede</a> with the one author they were fighting — though it claimed this was an “exception.”
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Except some other huge designation, ancient age authors know bigger. They’ve been realizing that they could be autonomous of charge to capture their ebook versions elsewhere, and immediately they’re doing exactly that. A bunch of <i>really</i> well known authors, working via their agents, have chose to route encircling their publishers <a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/22/authors-bypass-publishers-ebooks-amazon” target=”_blank”>and offer some of the most well loved books of all age as ebooks directly on Amazon’s Kindle</a>, without going through a publishing house. Among the books released through this effort are works from Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, Hunter S Thompson, John Updike, William Burroughs and Saul Bellow along with many others. Basically, some of the largest names in literature from the 20th century.
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Of direction, more recent authors won’t have this luxury directly, since fresh publishing contracts for books cover ebooks as well, however it will be fascinating to see how well these fresh ebooks do for authors — <i>and</i> if it leads to more authors realizing they can just self-publish outside of the traditional publisher system. I’m still not certain that makes as much sense, affirm, as going “indie” from a music standpoint, as publishers still offer a tremendous amount of value that’s dense to recreate, however at the very least, it could open the door to more specialized “indie” publishers, who are more author-friendly.<br /><br /><a href=”http://techdirt.com/articles/20100723/17020410345.shtml”>Permalink</a> | <a href=”http://techdirt.com/articles/20100723/17020410345.shtml#comments”>Comments</a> | <a href=”http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20100723/17020410345&op=sharethis”>Email This Tale</a><br />
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