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[Fsfe-france] Only 4% of Titles Are Being Commercially Exploited
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Laurent GUERBY |
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[Fsfe-france] Only 4% of Titles Are Being Commercially Exploited |
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Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:37:41 +0100 |
Interessant decompte de l'effet edifiant du droit d'auteur sur les
livres effectivement disponibles aux lecteurs (la diversite
culturelle en d'autres termes). Les DRMs ne vont pas
ameliorer la situation ...
Laurent
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> From: Arend Lammertink <address@hidden>
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/11/oops_only_4_of_titles_are_bein.html
"Put another way, if the AAP and Author's Guild were to prevail, and
opt-in were required, the AAP is asking us to believe that publishers are
willing to unearth the contracts for more than 25 million books, track
down the authors (since many of those books surely don't grant electronic
rights to the publishers, since those rights weren't even conceived at the
time many of those contracts were signed), and get their permission to opt
them in, and this despite the fact that those 25 million books didn't sell
even one copy in 2004. Try to be serious. There is no economic incentive
for publishers to opt in books in what I've called "the twilight zone."
This approach will make the creation of a comprehensive search engine for
books virtually impossible."
In the comments:
"One more fact. Again, according to Bookscan (in a presentation at The
BookStandard Summit 2005 conference), only about 7% of the 1.2 million
titles that sold at least one copy last year sold more than 1000 copies.
That's about 84,000 titles, or about a quarter of one percent of all the
titles that have ever been published."
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