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

Clarification: Though I was speaking "not as a lawyer," I am a lawyer. Had I been speaking as a lawyer I would have added additional legal arguments. My point was to express a pragmatic bookseller point of view, not to mislead.

John

On Sep 16, 2005, at 4:20 PM, John T. Mitchell wrote:

> 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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