Re: Кто напоил Херба?
Добавлено: 19 июн 2013, 16:41Херба достали)))
А вот еще одно раскрытие покровов:
Novels-New Shadowrun novels will be coming out this year. They're hoping to bring new BattleTech novels as well. According to Loren, CGL could have always printed new fiction. The problem with bringing the older titles into print was solely one of logistics. There were four companies* that inked contracts with authors. Very few of those contracts included an "epublication" clause. So those need to be renegotiated to get fair compensation to the authors. The other problem is the fact that four companies issued contracts, but not all of those contracts made it to the successor companies. So Topps may not have a copy of the contract Mike Stackpole signed with FASA. And they need to determine how much money Topps has to pay an author who signed a contract with FanPro, for example. Now multiply those issues across four companies* and about twenty-five authors. It just takes time to get them all resolved. And that sucks up a lot of time. The publisher had little to nothing to do with this.
CGL has now decided that tracking this stuff down and resolving the issues is important, but not as important as getting new fiction out there. They're still going to get the older titles resolved and out to us as they can, but they're going to devote more time to getting new fiction distributed. (I personally welcome this decision, because I'd love to see real books again. Or at least a lot of new stuff in the BattleShop.)
Итак: каталисты всегда имели право печатать новые романы. Но вместо этого они хотели перепечатать старые. Но владение правами на старые романы было запутано и перепутано. между 4 компаниями и 25 авторами.
И вот наконец, подустав от легальных проблем, Каталисты решили начать печатать новые книги, оставив старое на потом...
ИМХО, какой-то бред. Или они хотели срубить денежек еще раз на переизданиях, попутно раскручивая серию?
Версия не лишена логики. 