Hyman Rosen wrote: [...] > book publishing, it is extremely common for one publisher to > buy hardcover rights and for another to buy paperback rights.
Hyman, Hyman. Show me a single case where a hardcover lisensee was found liable under copyright law for publishing cheaper paperback version. Hint: the contract damages counting each paperback copy as substitute for a hardcover copy to calculate royalties fully compensate the licensor. Or are you talking about the case of paperback lisensee's breach resulting from selling hardcovers instead of paperbacks? Same contract damages arise here. You're really not okay, Hyman. "Paperbacks can be the preferred medium when a book is not expected to be a major seller, or in other situations where the publisher wishes to release a book without putting forth a large investment. Examples include many novels, and new editions or reprintings of older books. Publishers must balance the larger profit to be made by selling a small number of hardcovers (including sales to libraries, which prefer hardcovers) with a large profit per unit -- against the potentially larger profit to be made by selling a large number of paperbacks with a small profit per unit. Many modern books, especially genre fiction, are first editions in paperback. It is only the best-selling of books, such as 2003's The Da Vinci Code, which can maintain its sales in hardcover sufficiently to delay a paperback edition for longer than a year." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperback regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
