Back and Forth Continues on That New Simon and Schuster Standard Contract

It's worth tracking the back and forth between Simon & Schuster and the Author's Guild over whether or not the publisher's revised standard contract allows them to keep material they are no longer promoting or able to sell, even though very few cartoonists (I can only think of two) publish through them, and both of them would be working with the previous template.

One reason this is important is that one big publisher doing something makes it more likely that within a few years all publishers will be doing it, which would irrevocably change a vital market for comics publication. Another is that comics perhaps even more than prose trends toward republishing material at various presses over the lifetime of an individual cartoonist. A third is that it's hard to see what's being proposed as anything other than crappy for creative people.

Here's the latest exchange.
 
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