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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Perhaps authors should be able the "lease" their copyright, for a specified period of
time or number of copies; instead of selling it?
Maybe a copyright could be non-exclusive and more than one publishing house or
company could publish a book at the same time. (More than one grocery could
sell a farmer's produce. You can buy Prestone Antifreeze at many different stores/outlets.)
If you want to say only one company can exercise the copyright, then why, other
than to create a non-competitive situation? Doesn't the ebook file, as the thing
being copied and sold, change things a little?
If you eliminate the publishing house/middleman and the author keeps the copyright,
only allowing other sites to sell copies from the author's site (incidentally creating a
mechanism for the author to have precise sales accountability for all legal sales.)
{Call me cynical but if were an author I might wonder what losses there might be
from Publishing House Accounting.}
Luck:
Ken
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If authors could lease out their copyright to two or more publishers simultaneously, it would be such a tremendous boost for the quality of publishing. We'd finally see competition driving quality formatting of books (and ebooks)!