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Copyright, Ebooks And The Unpredictable FuturePosted at 5:11PM Saturday 28 Aug 2010 Publishers are now strenuously making the argument that ebooks are like paperbacks, a primary right, and they cannot create a publishing strategy for a title without controlling rights to both print and digital. Some agents and independent e-publishers, meanwhile, foresee a future in which ebooks are just one more right to carve out, like audiobooks, to sell to the print publisher at a price or to an independent digital house. But around the edges of debates about the old model, a new possibility is arising.What if ebooks force a wholesale re-thinking of the contract for books in all shapes and forms?
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