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Yes | 131 | 67.18% | |
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Other (explain in thread, please) | 11 | 5.64% | |
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09-12-2013, 07:47 AM | #136 | |
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09-12-2013, 07:48 AM | #137 | |
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What makes the difference is that when you order a print book from an overseas seller, the transaction is legally considered to have occurred at their place of business, but when you purchase an ebook it's your billing address that they use to determine the location of the transaction for taxation and rights purposes. As for geographical restrictions, I won't circumvent them just for price. |
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What does the author mean to you and me anyway? So why not just download every book and not pay anything. Enough people pay for the author to continue to write so why would I care?
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And those Americans, shouldn't they offer to pay more to be moral?
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Yes, but custom costs and postage usually make it more expensive to buy in another market.
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Personally, I strongly doubt any author prefers me to download their books as you advocate. Authors and publishers are free to set different prices for different markets -- and I am free to choose the market where I buy a book. |
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You may think that you need to act in such a manner, but I really don't. So I do what I do when I figure it is worth my while. And while shipping costs etc usually make it more expensive to order a book overseas and have it shipped to your home, nobody stands around screaming at you that you are an immoral heathen that might as well just go steal books as buy from an International source. They just think you're weird and they wonder why your book covers look different from theirs. |
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By circumventing geographical restrictions we boldly pave the way for a global digital marketplace for the benefit of all. Last edited by HansTWN; 09-12-2013 at 08:29 AM. |
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Or the savvier, new school authors. Geo restrictions are the very definition of a legacy business model and on the way out. The transition, like all big business model transitions, is messy but we'll soon enough be rid of this remnant of 19th century business practices and mores. |
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In my view, a TOS of that kind is immoral and invasive in the first place. Amazon shouldn't even look at the IP addresses of their customers.
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There is no morality in corporate contracts, just legalities. Either the terms of contract are legal or they're not and if they are it doesn't matter whose sense of propriety is offended. Trying to drag morality into it is the very definition of irrelevance. |
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I actually wonder what the impact would be to having only global publishing rights. Has anyone tried to project how that would change things? Do you think it could wipe out the presence of bigger publishers in smaller countries? Could there be any impact on the availability of English works (for example) in other languages?
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Most authors I have heard talking about these kind of things want to make as much money as possible. And that is the reason they sell rights for different geographical regions. I have never heard an author talk about a fair price for a book. I suppose the author would not think it is fair if the publisher increases the price without the author getting compensated.
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The alien concept is your method of arbitrarily and wrongly assume things about authors and publishers and then use that as motivation to behave in an immoral way. And by boldly download from torrents we pave the way for a transformed market with much more things on offer. So why do you not do that also? |
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