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Originally Posted by H-P
You're right about "that's another matter". English is not my native langage so IF.
Also like i wrote. If a website write in the mention, you're free to kill your mother". Private mentions are not above the law. The value for the reader let me laught  , all this content is alredy available for free on Amazon and co...The value is for the bank account of this kind of publisher.
And about the matter,
Open a commerce, pay your bills, tax, salaries.... the day that you will see, next to the door a new shop, which break alls prices, because all products are done for free by volunteers. Tell me: is it a fair competion? Is it legal in US ? |
Actually it's not only fair competition but the law in the U.S. At one time Bell Telephone was the big company that controlled most of the phone service in the U.S. and then someone argued that that was a monopoly which is against the law. People need to have the right to choose what type of services they want and what price they are willing to pay for them. So Ma Bell was broken down into separate companies. That's how come we have so many different phone companies now. And in fact if I have read postings in other topics right that's why the courts have been getting on the case of companies like Apple. Because they try to keep control of all the ebook markets so that they can set the price as they want it and decide which book becomes an ebook or not. Monopolies are bad economically usually (IMO) because not only does it stifle creativity but it limits accessibility of the product to the few who can afford the high prices. For example if an old movie in PD could be claimed to be the sole property of one distributor they could set a high price on it so that only a few people could afford to buy it. You see it with TV shows on DVD often. They want $40.00-50.00 or more for a season of some of the old programs so some people can't afford to buy them. And you're also forgetting that the same publishers who can't claim sole right to publish PD books are often the same ones who publish new authors who aren't in PD.