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Understanding Rights Reversion

Are you an author who would like to increase your book's availability? Have you already entered into a publishing agreement for your book? If you answered yes to both of these questions, then read on! This guide addresses the needs of authors who wish to make their works available to a wider audience in ways that may be prohibited by the terms of their existing publishing agreements. For example, this guide will help authors who want to do things like: - Bring their out-of-print books back into print - Publish digital versions of their books - Make their books openly accessible - Publish updated editions of their books - Create new works derived from their books (e.g., translations, audio editions, cinematic adaptions, etc.) This guide addresses common issues facing all authors who seek to increase their booksâ availability, regardless of whether an author has a literary agent. However, authors with agents may be restricted by the terms of their agency agreements from approaching their publishers directlyâor they may prefer to have their agents speak with their publishers on their behalf. Regardless of what an agent-author contract might stipulate, authors who consult this guide wi

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