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Originally Posted by darryl
That is my point, or at least one of them. Sales are already "up market" in India and are likely to stay that way under the existing system. If a "world price" did in fact turn out to be a higher price for books in India I suspect it would make little difference to the segment of the market able to purchase books there. It would be interesting to see at least some realistic modelling, but if such does exist I doubt it is public. It seems a very poor reason for allowing Publishers to hold the world to ransom.
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Don't you think you're exaggerating just a little? Rights-holders have an absolute right to decide who to sell distribution rights to, and in what territories. Nobody's being held to ransom. It's generally the decision of the author,
not the publisher, to decide to sell rights to different publishers in different counties, because they can make significantly more money that way. Blame the author, not the publisher.