A Story Pimp and Me
Mar. 9th, 2006 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plumtreeblossomSeems like someone, and not me, is selling on Amazon a short story I published in The Antioch Review in 1998. I don't know who it is.
This has been happening ever since that particular story got print-only published. On the contract I signed away my First North American Serial Rights, but at the time, Electronic Rights and Fair Use rights were in a very hazy, nebulous state. I first saw the story being sold on Northern Lights, upon whom a class-action suit was brought down (I didn't hear about it soon enough to get involved). But Amazon?
My co-worker just said "Well, at least you're out there getting read." Part of me wants to look at it that way, and just accept that we now live in a wiki world. But for goodness sake, if you want to read it, don't line this guy's pockets when you can read it for free on my website. I feel like posting that link on the customer comments section of that Amazon page.
What I really need to find out is how this affects my own republishing rights to the story, It's my favorite, and if I ever publish a short story collection I'm going to want that in it. I guess I'll contact Antioch, since I saw other Antioch authors' stories being sold by this person. I'm glad the story is still out there being enjoyed, but it is still mine...
This has been happening ever since that particular story got print-only published. On the contract I signed away my First North American Serial Rights, but at the time, Electronic Rights and Fair Use rights were in a very hazy, nebulous state. I first saw the story being sold on Northern Lights, upon whom a class-action suit was brought down (I didn't hear about it soon enough to get involved). But Amazon?
My co-worker just said "Well, at least you're out there getting read." Part of me wants to look at it that way, and just accept that we now live in a wiki world. But for goodness sake, if you want to read it, don't line this guy's pockets when you can read it for free on my website. I feel like posting that link on the customer comments section of that Amazon page.
What I really need to find out is how this affects my own republishing rights to the story, It's my favorite, and if I ever publish a short story collection I'm going to want that in it. I guess I'll contact Antioch, since I saw other Antioch authors' stories being sold by this person. I'm glad the story is still out there being enjoyed, but it is still mine...
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Date: 2006-03-09 07:43 pm (UTC)Go for it! The worst can happen is that they'll pull the comment. Hmm, no, on second thought, let your friends post the link....
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Date: 2006-03-09 08:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-09 08:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-09 08:17 pm (UTC)While you have rights for your story, it is a published story and Antioch has rights to it too (depending on the legalese of the contract of course)
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Date: 2006-03-09 09:07 pm (UTC)Yeah, that would be a possibility I'd consider as well. Ask Antioch, and they can confirm or disconfirm. If it *is* through their official channels, though, oughtn't they to keep you informed of this sort of arrangement? Sheesh.