Re: Selling Books - Using Select Text and Images in Sales Lit

Also speaking not as a lawyer, but as a bookseller, the danger when authors say (B) and (C) are not OK is that (1) it tends to let them choose which booksellers can be more successful (saying "OK" to the favored ones and "not OK to the rest), and (2) if they give permission, it is likely to be "OK, but I get to choose which selections," or "OK, but you have to promise not to allow any negative reviews on your site." Doing so robs the bookseller of the opportunity to compete as a candid, truthful supplier of relevant buying information. The author may not like the least flattering portion to be displayed, for example, but the bookseller may select a more balanced representative sample. And for a bookseller to be believed when it says "this work is terrific," it has to be free to also say "you know, this is far from the best work by this author."

John

On Sep 15, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Dodi Schultz wrote:

>
> Garry Print wants to know if, in online book sales, reproducing the
> following are okay: (A) the TOC; (B) three or four paragraphs from the
> book; (C) "some JPEG images of 3 to 6 select pages".
>
> Speaking as an author, not as a lawyer: (A) is fine and is
> frequently done;
> (B) and (C) are absolutely not okay without the copyright holder's
> permission.
>
> --DS
>
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