RE: International E-book Sales Restrictions Explained

It will be interesting (and hopefully profitable) where this who e-book thing ends up regarding royalties to authors and protection of copyright  Bill

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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:07:06 +0100
Subject: [ebook-community] International E-book Sales Restrictions Explained
















 



  


    
      
      
      [Sometimes I agree with Chris Meadows, but very often I disagree. This



is an instance of disagreement. Here he reports on criticism of

restrictions on where ebooks may be sold. It is one of the disguised

attacks on the copyright system. Copyright gives a right to the rights

owner - which that owner may licence to a publisher or other person or

business - which legally entitles the owner to determine all the rights

to make copies (fair use and fair dealing are limited conditions for

specific purposes reflecting community interests in those specifics).

Such a breach, as that proposed for this/these right/s, ends the whole

publishing business, for publishers big or small and for authors and

other professionals.



And there is a false analogy with brick and mortar bookshops. Bookshops

*store* print books, they do not copy them; it is the nature of the

digital file that ebookstores do make copies to meet a sale. There may

be a need to check and discuss, and then possibly introduce a different

copyright system; but these casual appeals to... well to I'm not sure

what, except maybe 'I want it, and I want it now'.  And I would point

out to Chris and all those who think like him that, as any good

organiser knows, things work by having complex rules, not by simplicity.

And the 'mess' of international ebook publishing, like beauty, is in the

eye of the beholder.]



International E-book Sales Restrictions Explained

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Why the international e-book retailing system is such a mess

http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-41280

http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/patrick-nielsen-hayden-explains-international-e-book-sales-restrictions/



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