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Old 12-16-2020, 09:36 AM   #30
murraypaul
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Online eRetail making their own rules and cheating content providers compared to traditional sales and royalties (shops and libraries) is an absolute fact.
No it isn't.
Cheating means something.

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Content providers should get paid whatever price they want per copy, and then retail sell at any price.
That is how it used to work, then the content providers illegally colluded to force a change to the system they wanted, which is where they set the retail price and Amazon are forced to accept it.

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Amazon is making up their own rules to suit themselves, which abuse the privacy of readers and are contrary to what content providers want and contrary to law in many countries.
So now Amazon is breaking the law, but noone else has noticed?

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Content providers should not be forced to set a retail price. Amazon should pay a content providers price and for loans in UK or Ireland have the SAME rules as real libraries, ie pay for simultaneous copies at content provider's library rate AND pay the national agreed per borrow royalty.
KU is not the same as normal libraries.

In the UK and Ireland, publishers have no choice whether libraries can buy and lend their physical books, it is a legal right of the library they can't do anything about. In return, they get a legally specified payment for borrows.

With KU, authors/publishers have the choice. They can put their books in KU, accepting the terms Amazon offer, or choose not to. The only books in KU are ones the authors/publishers have decided to put there.

Should publishers/authors be forced to make their eBooks to be available for library borrowing? They aren't at the moment, and it is clear that several publishers would rather that eBook lending didn't exist at all.

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