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Originally Posted by sirbruce
I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Only that if someone does it non-profit, it's still taking money out of my pocket
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No it's not. Taking money out of your pocket means that you should be getting money you're not. If you're not selling the book in an accessible version you won't get any money from visually disabled people as they won't buy your book. Hence you will lose nothing. Only if you are in fact selling the book in an accessible version and someone sees fit to distribute another accessible version for free (if that will be legal by the law) you will lose money. The fact that someone distributes accessible versions of your books to visually disabled people that would not otherwise buy your books
can never cost you money.
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and if someone does it for profit, the terms of what I'm allowed to get are decided by some beauracrat or politician, not by my contract. More specifically, it states that while the prices in developed countries can be expected to be close to equivalent to what my book usually sells for, in developing countries it can be expected to be much, much less.
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I don't want to be impolite but the notion that you can sell a book at the same price in developed countries as in developing countries is ridiculous. Have a look at what the movie industry is doing in the far east for some ideas of just how stupid that notion is.
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