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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Keep in mind that the reading public is _not_ the customer for the publishers, the book shops are. In addition, until fairly recently, the copyright laws were different from country to country and copyrights were not necessarily honored in between countries (example, the first paperback version of LOTR's in the US was an unauthorized edition by Ace.) Things are slowly changing.
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Huh? The Berne Convention dates back to 1886, though the US only formally signed on about a century later. Copyright laws do vary somewhat from country to country, yes, but virtually every country is a signatory now and has been for decades. The degree to which things vary hasn't changed much in 25 years. (And the LotR's debacle had little to do with variations in copyright law and much to do with the publisher, the British one, I think, screwing up.)