No two of our contracts are exactly alike but all of them contain a clause about when the rights revert to you. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the book has to go out of print at that point and if the book is still viable and you haven’t requested that we take it out of print, we’re happy to keep it going. In fact, that tends to be the default.
I mentioned recently the difference between us using Ingram or Amazon KDP for paperbacks. In fact, we incur no annual expense for Amazon KDP and can keep those books going forever.
It costs us £8.40 a year to keep an Ingram’s book going
Even if you request us to withdraw your book form print, we can still print you author copies if you so wish. We can’t do the same for Amazon KDP. If we take it out of print we can no longer print it. There is always the option in both cases anyway of keeping the e-book going.
One of the advantages of Ingram is that we can continue to provide author copies even if we take the book out of print.
Amazon KDP has two advantages: making export of books easier and not incurring an annual fee.
Note, even if by mutual agreement we take your book out of print it is likely still to a appear in all sorts of places. The book remains in some of the supply chains still and some retailers are still able to source copies that are out there.
If you ask us to take your book out of print and you go to another publisher, that version of the book will get a new ISBN anyway. So, it is very much a different book. Amazon and other retailer sites will often show multiple editions of a title.
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