Resumen
This article focuses on e-books. E-books offer exciting opportunities for readers and tempting prospects for authors. The same electronic technology that lets readers transport a small library of books in an e-book reader and access many more titles over the Internet, also may give new life to old, out of print titles, as well as to newer titles of modest appeal. Books that could not claim an audience sufficient to justify continued print runs and retail store space may well attract enough readership to warrant electronic delivery. E-books' digital search functions also facilitate study and analysis of any work, old or new. Alongside e-books' potential attractions for authors and readers, however, there persist troubling rights ownership questions for authors of preexisting works and for entrepreneurs with whom those authors might wish to contract. The safest route would be to reissue works already in the public domain. As to those works, no one owns exclusive rights, hence, there can be no Rosetta Books LLC-style conflict of ownership.