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Originally Posted by HarryT
The result of that would be much higher prices for the consumer. Every distributor would have to buy world-wide distribution rights, and the potential increase in sales would almost certainly not cover those additional costs, which would inevitably be passed on to the consumer. Are you willing to pay double or triple the existing price?
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You may be right, but I don't believe so. I suspect that the value of the rights would decline accordingly.
I don't think the prices in third world countries argument is a very good one. Even if it had more merit, it argues for a division into disadvantaged and other countries, not regional rights. In any event, in many of those countries only the wealthy middle class can afford books anyway, and piracy is usually rife. I suspect you would find that the market will find a way. Perhaps publishers should be looking to significant price reductions in return for far higher volumes, which is usually an intelligent internet strategy.
Whether poeple like it or not, and for good or for ill, we now have in reality one market. Geo-restrictions are easily circumvented. Get used to it.