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12-18-2011, 02:36 PM | #16 | |
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That is strange, why would any given author want to limit the sales of their books by selling it in one country and not another ?
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12-18-2011, 04:51 PM | #17 | |
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And in Europe many countries have official price fixing for books, that would be finished. US sellers (who generally are the cheapest) would also have to start collecting taxes (sales tax or VAT) for people living in different countries. You must know European governments, they will hold on to every cent of tax revenue until you pry it from their cold dead hands. It is not as easy as it sounds. Amazon really is the only one who could do it, and even they have separate stores in many countries with different prices for the same book in English. Last edited by HansTWN; 12-18-2011 at 07:01 PM. |
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Quite simply "money". An author can get more money by signing with, say, a separate US and UK publisher, than by giving US and UK rights to a single publisher. Eg, they'll get a separate advance from each publisher.
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Which proves, those rights are a mess... |
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Unfortunately this means the interest of the author and those of the reader are no longer the same. This sheds new light on the moral grounds for piracy IMO.
If the author (or publishers) fight for their rights and their interests, the reader or consumer has the moral right to fight for his own rights and if any given book is not available due to artificial reasons such as geo-restrictions, this is not the consumer's problem and he/she is morally (for lack of "legally") entitled to fight for his right to read any given book by whatever means available (again IMO) |
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There are books that I am not allowed to buy from the UK and not from the US. Why? I'd have thought at least that the UK publisher would also cover all non-English speaking EU countries. But apparently this is not so. Then who does hold the rights for those countries, as often I'm also not allowed to buy those books from the US publishers... |
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There is no reason why the British publishers shouldn't be able to service the whole European market for the English version of a book. Prices would effectively have to be tied to the GBP. No reason to admit US sellers into the market on an equal footing. |
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Unless you want to see tariffs put on foreign publishers in the US, of course.
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I care much less about this than about an open market within the EU. Most large publishers will publish in the US through their US subsidiaries anyway.
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we have a heap of threads on MR discussing differences of english in the regions it is currently used. things like this happen to other languages too |
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