![]() We have seen Jane Friedman secure additional funding for her growing ‘Open Road‘ venture. We have seen the likes of Barnes and Noble launch Pubit and Amazon open its doors wide to publishing. We have seen previously published authors dust down long overlooked titles and self publish them. We have seen academic publishers, such as CUP and Taylor and Francis, build a significant business by keeping titles in print using on demand services. We have seen literary agents start to consider their back list and make bold steps to publish them. Forget what the pro Google Book Settlement advocates have long claimed, there is life in many of these works and there are lots of them out there worth adopting and that’s why Google wanted them so badly. This should not be achieved via the back door and by ‘snatching’ them off the street, but by establishing the owner, or agent and working with them to give them a second digital life. ![]() The easiest way to deal with orphan works is to adopt them digitally, but do so legitimately.
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