Science Fiction

SheilaT

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13. Two years is far too short a time, especially for a living

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 02:35 PM

Sep 2012

author. In fact, that short a time would give publishing houses a very strong incentive not to actively sell or market something just to let it go into the public domain. Authors complain as it is about how publishing houses screw them over in regards to paying royalties in a timely manner.

Lifetime of the author plus a reasonable length of time, perhaps ten years, would be better.

I've had some things published a lot more than two years ago, and if someone wanted to reprint them I sure as heck should get the money, rather than those stories to be already in the public domain.

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The Brooklyn bookshop saving out-of-print sci-fi, one e-book at a time [View all] n2doc Sep 2012 OP

I uncerstand that there's a huge amount of old s-f out there SheilaT Sep 2012 #1

If you know where to look AtheistCrusader Sep 2012 #2

As a writer myself, SheilaT Sep 2012 #8

From dead authors more than 75 years old? AtheistCrusader Sep 2012 #9

You are absolutely right. SheilaT Sep 2012 #12

Lovecraft even did sci-fi. He had one short story of an astronaut stuck in an invisible maze. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #3

I remember that one n2doc Sep 2012 #4

"But then I love HPL" Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #5

He has his own style, that is for sure. n2doc Sep 2012 #6

"Agree on AtMoM..I re-read that one recently and it still is a good ride." Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #7

Two years is far too short a time, especially for a living SheilaT Sep 2012 #13

The "Greenwich Village Trilogy" is still out there in rare or hard to find... Tikki Sep 2012 #11