09-21-2010, 02:23 PM | #1 | |
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UK/European Agency Model introduced
Today I noticed that my BooksOnBoard wishlist was missing over 10 books since I last checked on Sunday. I emailed BoB about this and just got a reply. It seems Hachette has introduced the Agency Model for Europe since 20 September. They have made their title unavailable until everything is set up (haven't they learned from the US process in April?!).
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09-21-2010, 02:35 PM | #2 |
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Yes, this has been discussed elsewhere. Some retailers appear to have temporarily removed the books, but Amazon haven't - at least not yet.
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09-21-2010, 11:50 PM | #3 |
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This might explain why the Hachette book I bought yesterday from Cyberread.com wont download and gives me the error "The requested eBook title cannot be downloaded at this time due to difficulty in communicating with the retail site. Please try again later."
I'm in the US not UK so I guess this will effect everyone. I contacted their support and they are looking into it but obviously they are clueless to what is going on. |
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Hoorray for the darknet? I swear, those publishers want us to go there!
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09-22-2010, 02:18 AM | #5 |
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Does this fall foul of free trade and competition laws in the UK and Europe?
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09-22-2010, 03:50 AM | #6 |
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One would have thought so - the Net Book Agreement, which sought to artificially keep up the retail price at which paper books were sold, was declared to be against the public interest in the nineties. I can't see any difference between the effect of the NBA and the Agency Model. But it would have to be tested legally I guess.
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09-22-2010, 04:04 AM | #7 |
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09-22-2010, 07:11 AM | #9 |
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09-22-2010, 09:00 AM | #10 |
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What is the darkent??
Is it illegal downlaoding from Torrents??? |
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But there are other parts. The "classic darknet" resides on Usenet, IRC, and private channels... And then there is the technical definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_(file_sharing) |
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It is not legal when you are talking copyrighted content. Don't pirate books (or anything else) people. Publishers acts like idiots, that don't mean we have to act like idiots too. |
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Come to think of it, where I once used the good old usenet for all my tech support needs, I haven't even looked at them in a number of years. Too much background noise...you know just like the way the web is heading these days. |
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09-22-2010, 06:30 PM | #15 |
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