Re: Snooze/lose (Was: Academics and coursepacks)

On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Albert Henderson <NobleStation[_at_]compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> On 27 Aug 1998, Michael Bradley <michael[_at_]vision-soft.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you mean it's been argued on this list, all that I recall is a
> > report that when a certain classic US novel (I forget which one) went
> > into the public domain, several publishers issued new editions. But
> > the same report said that the original publisher's sales dropped in
> > half. So all that shows is the profits from publishing the work were
> > spread around, not that the overall number of copies sold increased.
>
> I am not familiar with this report, but I have many questions and some
> disagreement with the above.

     I should have said "... profits from publishing the work MAY HAVE BEEN spread around ..."

• Mike Bradley National Writers Union <michael[_at_]vision-soft.com>