Volume 6- Issue 6, June 2007
Published by Llumina Press

An author sent me this information.  It's Simon & Schuster's response to a
letter about their new contract, which signs authors up for life. After a
book exhausts its first large run(s), they will be making it available
through POD.

Simon & Schuster's official reaction, from Adam Rothberg, VP for Corporate
Communications:

"We are surprised at the overreaction of the Authors Guild to Simon &
Schuster's contract. We believe that our contract appropriately addresses
the improved technology, increased availability, and higher quality of print
on demand books, and reflects the fact that print on demand titles may now
be readily purchased by consumers at both online and brick and mortar
stores. We are embracing print on demand technology as an unprecedented
opportunity for authors and publishers to keep their books alive and
available and selling in the marketplace in a way that may not have been
previously possible for many authors, and are confident in the long term it
that will be a benefit for all concerned. We would also like the author and
agent community to know that, when necessary, we have always had good faith
negotiations on the subject of reversions, and will continue to on a
book-by-book basis."

Here are links to other stories that have run:

1. AP (via Herald Tribune)
2. New York Times
3. Publishers Weekly (the other PW story on S&S)