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Excellent point. Such elites get to a point where their own view of the world diverges so much from reality that it causes them real problems and endangers their very existence. Because they base their decisions in the real world on their own distorted view of it.
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Books are a product like any other, and the producer is entirely within their rights to restrict availability and set whatever price they wish. The market will decide whether or not their decisions are economically sound, but there is no inherent "right" to be able to buy books for peanuts. |
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The only caveat I would make is that the market should be as free as it is possible to make it and not manipulated specifically to benefit any one group. |
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In terms of the Dirk Pitt series, I don't know who's fault it is that the complete series is not available in the US. But why would some be available and not the rest? It just makes some people disillusioned with eBooks or turn to the net to find them or to go shopping in another country.
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If the publisher who owns the ebook rights for an area, assuming it does own the rights and doesn't simply assume it has the ebook rights because it does have the paper rights, refuses to publish can't the author take those rights back and publish themselves? Of course that would mean lawyers, time and money fighting their publisher (non-publisher?)
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When I read threads like this I'm aware that maybe books are more fungible to me than others. I mean I wouldn't pirate a book simply because it wasn't available. That's unethical.
I won't even jump through the hoops needed to avoid geo restrictions. I'm not going to argue the ethics of that, simply that it's too much hassle to go through just to read a book. At the end of the day there's always something else to read. It's annoying if it's part of a series but even then... |
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You may be right. Though I can't recall one off the top of my head a thread where the view has been expressed that there is a right to buy any book for "unreasonably low prices" or "peanuts". Though I suppose the Big 5 thought Amazon's $9.99 was unreasonably low.
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1. Rights reverted to author or author's estate. 2. Rights sold to another publisher. 3. Rights had a limited shelf life and reverted to original publisher. In these instances, I just get a copy of the book, have it scanned and convert it for use in my ereaders and move on. Of course, this is only for a handful of books where I really WANT the complete series. |
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@pwalker8. That is regrettable for everyone concerned, Publisher, Author and Reader. Whilst we have no way of knowing the actual breakdown of what readers do in this situation, it is a pretty fair bet that a not insignificant number choose to get the books some other way. Of these, some of course will buy or borrow a paper copy. Some will electronically "travel" to a country which does have it for sale. And, of course, some will simply download a pirate copy. The latter method of obtaining copies seems to me to be the most convenient of these options, having the advantages of no cost, instant delivery and direct download of a file without drm in the format of choice. And we have seen how important convenience is with ITunes, 1-click ordering etc. Human nature being what it is, many who take this option are going to consider their actions justified and ease their conscience (if this is a problem for them) with the rationale that it is the authors/publishers fault for not making the ebook available to them for purchase. I suspect that the vast majority of those who rationalise their actions in this way would in fact have purchased the ebook if it was available, though this of course is no comfort to the authors and publishers who are not paid.
I suspect that losses due to piracy are very significant where ebooks are not available in particular regions. And even more significant where only some books in a series are available. Last edited by darryl; 02-28-2018 at 08:20 PM. |
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