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Andrew Wylie Vs Random House: The Thrilla In Manila (folders)

Posted at 5:19PM Saturday 28 Aug 2010

The Random House Wylie Odyssey has been resolved, apparently with Random agreeing to some kind of sliding royalty scale on e-books that goes as high as 40%, and Wylie conceding to Random control of e-editions for 13 of his 20 Odyssey authors. This is a reasonable resolution that probably could have been arrived at with less heavy breathing all around. But press accounts of yesterday's agreement shot off in all directions.

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