Re: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity

From: Albert Henderson <NobleStation[_at_]compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 12:17:37 -0400

On 7/31/98, Michael Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:
>
> The trouble with this is that publishers don't really compete on
> price, but on authors.

This is not entirely true. There are plenty of public domain title listed for sale by multiple publishers in BOOKS IN PRINT. Look up Melville, Plato, Shakespeare, etc. etc.

You will see that prices vary as do bindings and, on closer inspection, manufacturing, distribution, and insertion of added materials.

Albert Henderson, Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 70244.1532[_at_]compuserve.com Received on Tue Aug 04 1998 - 16:18:08 GMT

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