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From: tom@utcsri.UUCP (Tom Nadas)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Let's try to roll back the SF price increase rip-off!
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 08:37:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 08:37:34 1985
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Sorry, I can't buy that "anybody who pays list price for books is part
of the problems, not part of the solution."  What about the authors
fair due -- his or her royalty.  Typically, the author of a $3.50
paperback is entitled to 21 cents and the man or woman whose name 
appears on the dustjacket of a $20 hardcover should get two bucks.  
Fortunately, many countries (including Canada) seem to be slowly
moving towards the European standard of Public Lending Rights, wherein
authors receive a royalty on library copies for each time they're 
checked out.  As for paperback exchanges, all I can ask is this:

if you had created the original work (be it a book, record, computer
program, or whatever), would you be happy if after one person paid
for it an unlimited number of people got to use it?  Or would you
be inclined, no matter how good the critical notices your work
got, to consider some of these freeloaders to be parasites?

RJS


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