I have mixed feelings on the whole thing -- not least because there are examples of the heirs and claimants making it impossible for any publisher to keep a book in print, and Norton is one of the cases where your choice is essentially second-hand or the few titles that escaped the copyright net.
In her case it's a quarrel between various people as to who gets what control over the literary rights. In others it's because heirs have inflated ideas about what the rights are worth, and demand bestseller advances and/or levels of creative control for small press or mid-list work. And that's before we get on to the cases where the heirs disapprove of the author and zir works, and find the warm glow of spite from effectively destroying the work more appealing than the prospect of making money from allowing continued publication.
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Date: 2009-06-08 05:55 pm (UTC)In her case it's a quarrel between various people as to who gets what control over the literary rights. In others it's because heirs have inflated ideas about what the rights are worth, and demand bestseller advances and/or levels of creative control for small press or mid-list work. And that's before we get on to the cases where the heirs disapprove of the author and zir works, and find the warm glow of spite from effectively destroying the work more appealing than the prospect of making money from allowing continued publication.