11-04-2010, 03:07 PM | #1 |
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Lostbooksales.com is up and running
Earlier this week Dear Author had a post about Geo-restrictions. One Commenter wished there was a website to report lost book sales. Jane at Dear Author thought it was a good idea. And now the webpage is up. The point is to make Publishers realise exactly how much they lose on Geo-restrictions, and on high prices.
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11-04-2010, 03:17 PM | #2 |
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Love the site! To be fair, it's not always one publisher's fault, especially in cases where the author sells different publishers the rights to sell in different countries (usually in the contracting phase).
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11-04-2010, 03:31 PM | #3 |
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11-05-2010, 10:10 AM | #4 |
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The purpose of the website isn't to assign blame.
Its to collate data from real potential customers to prove that there is a demand. |
11-05-2010, 11:06 AM | #5 | |
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The publisher territory restrictions prevent users from purchasing titles from retailers who are not in their same country. They are designed to ensure that ebook purchases in countries where these are taxed cannot avoid paying taxes by shopping abroad. I've read a lot about geographic restrictions these last couple of years, but this is the first time I've heard of them being explained as a way of stopping tax avoidance.
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11-06-2010, 10:10 AM | #6 |
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Mike L, it's goofier than that. I purchased a title from BooksonBoard a couple of weeks ago but mis-understood the icons its uses for ADE PDF and ADE ePub. I "bought" two freebies and one paid for title. The moment I paid and opened, I realised the PDF error. I wrote to customer service immediately and they flipped on the ADE ePub.
Ooops. Except for one thing. The ePub can't be sold in Canada, but the PDF -- same edition, same publisher -- can be. The delivery system prevented me downloading the ePub but happily supplied the PDF. They refunded my money. Kudos for the customer service but how dumb are those geo-restrictions? |
11-06-2010, 10:25 AM | #7 |
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Ah, this is definitely interesting. I am most interested to see what becomes of this as I too think that some common sense needs to be knocked into a lot of heads in the book world. Let's just hope something happens from this.
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11-06-2010, 11:00 AM | #8 |
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Every lost book sale for Ayn Rand is another mind freed to make its own decisions.
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11-06-2010, 02:00 PM | #9 |
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ROFL!!
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11-06-2010, 04:19 PM | #10 |
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I presume Steven Lake is rofl at Post 8 and I chuckled immediately upon reading it. Thanks for the laugh.
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11-06-2010, 06:43 PM | #11 |
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Yes, it was at post 8.
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11-06-2010, 11:19 PM | #12 |
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11-08-2010, 01:30 AM | #13 |
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thanks for the heads-up. i've already bookmarked the site and submitted a lost sale.
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11-13-2010, 10:09 AM | #14 |
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I submitted one this morning.
I noticed that of all the entries, so far, there are only two "found" sales. I hope that will change as time goes on. |
11-13-2010, 10:30 AM | #15 |
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Great site! I also just submitted one. A friend from oversea e-mailed me a copy since I could not get it in ebook format in the US.
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