Re: "Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)" by David Weber

On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:07:30 +1100, Mad Hamish
<[email protected]> wrote:

>>Ya, that whole incident was just stupid.  And of all the titles to 
>>reclaim THAT had to be first?!
>
>What were they meant to do when they found that the publisher didn't
>have the rights to the book?

Pay the legitimate rights holder. 

NOT their own customers who in good faith had purchased the book -
since they themselves made the original sale and part of the
reasonable expectations of a customer is that the vendor had the right
to sell the item they purchased in good faith. (Of course when
discussing a book there's also the expectation that the book is
readable - ie that all the pages are there...)

To me (a recently retired store owner who sold goods to the jewelry
trade) of course my customers' had a right to believe I had the right
to sell them the goods I was selling them. Their agreement to purchase
was with me not the original manufacturer. Their main duty was to pay
the price - and owning their purchases and receiving them in usable
condition was part of the purchase. I as vendor didn't have the right
to reclaim the goods to repay my obligations to the manufacturer.