Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, & How to Regain Copyright and Make Your Book More Available: Volume 1 (Authors Alliance Guides)

Understanding Rights Reversion is a guide that arms authors with the information and strategies they need to revive their books that might otherwise be out of print, difficult to track down, or no longer enjoying commercial success.

Today’s technologies offer tremendous opportunities for authors to make their out-of-print or otherwise unavailable books more widely available. Some authors want to revive their books by creating e-books, while others may want to use print-on-demand technology or deposit their books in openly accessible repositories. We hope that the guide empowers authors to advocate on their own behalf to make their works more widely available, and we believe that many authors can work with their publishers to increase their books’ availability by following the strategies articulated in the guide: Be Reasonable, Be Flexible, Be Persistent, and Be Creative.

Understanding Rights Reversion is available on an open access basis and can be downloaded for free from authorsalliance.org/reversion.

Authors Alliance is a membership-driven, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advocating for authors who "write to be read." Learn more at authorsalliance.org.