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Originally Posted by Jellby
The benefit? People in other countries would buy the books instead of downloading them for free from PG, which would bring benefits to the publisher/estate.
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They would?
Wodehouse wrote in English, and his works were gentle satires on upper class English life and mores. His principal audience will be in English speaking countries, and even then he'll be a niche item.
I don't see the potential lost revenue from folks downloading an electronic version vs buying a pbook to be enough to make any legal action against PG versions worth the bother.
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But anyway, there is a difference between PG and Fictionwise (and others), which is often a key difference for the law: Fictionwise makes profit from selling, PG does not.
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PG doesn't
sell, so no, they don't. Fictionwise does, but how much are we talking about on a PD here but not there title?
Again, I call money the determining factor. People will clamor to enforce rights in direct proportion to how much they think the rights are worth. For the vast majority of stuff PD here but not there, the answer to "How much are the rights worth?" will be "nothing".
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Dennis