Guild Warns That Latest Simon & Schuster Moves May Lock Books In

John Rieber on The Engine points to this press release talking about terms in the new Simon & Schuster standard contract that may expand the notion of keeping something in print in a way that will deny authors the ability to move books to publishers who want to publish paper book versions of their work. Since I can't think of anything Simon & Schuster publishes comics-wise other than that Mark Siegel/Siena Cherson Siegel To Dance ballerina thingamabob (hopefully I'm not forgetting an entire imprint), I'm not certain this is a huge story right now.

Of course, this becomes a huge story if this becomes a standard practice with lots of publishers, particularly those with major graphic novel lines. It's a story of particular interest to cartoonists because a certain portability when it comes to moving to more amenable publishers and doing reprints has become a significant part of the business in the last several years.
 
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