[Fmpro] scab?

[John Stone]

   Les,

   "American printers ripping off European Pubs and international
   copyright...", good analogy.

   I just wanted to add that a strong organization, the American
   Booksellers Association (began in Nov. 1900) was created to help
   independent retail booksellers survive the European flood of published
   books. Without that control over the product, the U.S. book market
   would never have succeeded.  Today purchasing rights of books is the
   biggest part of the international book trade.  Also, the death of the
   independent bookstore in the past 20 years has come from complex
   issues related to the artificial protection of a rather outdated ABA,
   in the virtual world.  Everyone wants to write or publish a
   "bestseller", money rules, the quality of the written word is lessened
   by this.  Small presses close their doors... Our society is weakened,
   therefore we are lessened.

   "Control" of the product will seemingly never be in the hands of the
   writer...unless something changes drastically or artificial protection
   is forthcoming.  Music and literature are integral components of a
   free society.  At least this forum gives me hope.

   John Stone [1]www.johnstonemusic.net
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     From:  leshurdle <leshurdle at avradionet.com>
     >Hmmmmmmmm seems you have all got you knickers in a
     twist...........
     >over what?
     >
     >American printers ripped off European 'publishers' centuries ago
     >until some time later American publishers realized they were then
     >being ripped by the Europeans......... hence copyright
     law.........
     >which is now a joke.
     >
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