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H-P · 03-10-2013, 04:17 AM

Hi all,

Elfwreck, Why i buy paper book and why i redo all the job even the text is online.

Because as a small company, that illegal to sell free work done by volunteers. With the violation of work law,... By this way, a publisher can't be in competiton with this kind of resellers ( full texts of one author for 1 or 2 $), that definitly an unfair competion.

The answer of Gweek, sound like the law in my country. Charity organisation, non-profit organisation,... which can use volunteers but can't do business like they was a classical company. there are always some conditions.

In some case, when a non-profit organisation can be in competion on one market, it must respect some rules ( first one is to be a non-profit organisation, and have some others rules, the cash redistribution with must stay in the organization, the manager of this kind of organization can't put the cash in this pockets, there are some volunteers which control that... They can't doing a direct competion, because they've this advantage with volunteers.

In some case,... but in this case, on the famous ebooks platforms.... there are too much people which do business with this human works done by volunteers in direct competition. That huge.

So that not a DP problem. When you do a business, you have to respect the law(s). That why i tall you DP is not the God law. You want to be a publisher based on non copyright textes, do your own work..... and call me back, if you sitll still sell the full texts of one authors after 6 months of hard work at 1 or 2 dollars.

In my personnal case, the first book that i published, is online, but i took 3 weeks to do it. It was the first version on one famous plateform. Now i'm in compétition with 5 versions, i don't know, why ! but all have the sames mistakes. And each time, the new version is cheaper and cheaper....Do you have an idea

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This ebook was the wellknow book of this author, and of course, i published others texts from the same guy, which aren't online.

Wikisouce, put a warning on the free texts: So selling text with mistakes, with missing text, (you don't know what you sell), when you cut and past, can be in certains situation a customer infraction. This kind of guy really don't care about the reader. Easy money is the only one motivation.

And epub's are often dirty ( please volunteers can you do a clean package with epubs and nice cover, ready to sell for this kind of guys)

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H-P Member Posts: 14 Karma: 470242 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: none	One law may hide another... Hi all, Elfwreck, Why i buy paper book and why i redo all the job even the text is online. Because as a small company, that illegal to sell free work done by volunteers. With the violation of work law,... By this way, a publisher can't be in competiton with this kind of resellers ( full texts of one author for 1 or 2 $), that definitly an unfair competion. The answer of Gweek, sound like the law in my country. Charity organisation, non-profit organisation,... which can use volunteers but can't do business like they was a classical company. there are always some conditions. In some case, when a non-profit organisation can be in competion on one market, it must respect some rules ( first one is to be a non-profit organisation, and have some others rules, the cash redistribution with must stay in the organization, the manager of this kind of organization can't put the cash in this pockets, there are some volunteers which control that... They can't doing a direct competion, because they've this advantage with volunteers. In some case,... but in this case, on the famous ebooks platforms.... there are too much people which do business with this human works done by volunteers in direct competition. That huge. So that not a DP problem. When you do a business, you have to respect the law(s). That why i tall you DP is not the God law. You want to be a publisher based on non copyright textes, do your own work..... and call me back, if you sitll still sell the full texts of one authors after 6 months of hard work at 1 or 2 dollars. In my personnal case, the first book that i published, is online, but i took 3 weeks to do it. It was the first version on one famous plateform. Now i'm in compétition with 5 versions, i don't know, why ! but all have the sames mistakes. And each time, the new version is cheaper and cheaper....Do you have an idea. This ebook was the wellknow book of this author, and of course, i published others texts from the same guy, which aren't online. Wikisouce, put a warning on the free texts: So selling text with mistakes, with missing text, (you don't know what you sell), when you cut and past, can be in certains situation a customer infraction. This kind of guy really don't care about the reader. Easy money is the only one motivation. And epub's are often dirty ( please volunteers can you do a clean package with epubs and nice cover, ready to sell for this kind of guys) Last edited by H-P; 03-10-2013 at 04:40 AM.