Thread: How piracy built the U.S. publishing industry
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Old 02-28-2012, 07:04 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by carpetmojo View Post
As well as favouring the studios so they could make money ........ but also help create an art form.
But reading newsheets of the time, you wonder why they needed to nick stories !

And.........
....."one of the most lucrative revenue streams for U.S. publishers during this period came from churning out unauthorized copies of British books before their rivals could. Authors didn't get a dime, say Burrows and Wallace." ......

So that's how much you owe us ?

Ignoring, of course the calumny that our upright honest publishers of the day read the odd foreign language book in their leisure time ........
I would estimate somewhere along lines of 10 000$ USD per copy, you know they might have been shared later so lost revenue is massive ;D
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