| Sumario: | The article focuses on issues related to electronic publishing. Publishers try to argue that their interests and authors' interests are identical, but the further deals shift from traditional patterns, the less true this becomes. Print on demand is a great innovation, but an author must be allowed to reclaim rights if a publisher is just using the facility to hang on to a book. Publishers' profit margins are under severe pressure, yet if they feel compelled to squeeze their authors further it could break the whole royalty system and take things back to the old days, when authors basically sold their copyright.
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