Royalties & copyright (WAS: Lot 49)

[Mark Kohut]

I'm sorry, simply wrong. 

Authors do not get royalties on used copy sales. There is NO market where 
books can not be resold. 

Authors' contracts do not change because of the possiblity of used copy sales.

--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Kevin Troy <kevin.troy at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kevin Troy <kevin.troy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Royalties & copyright (WAS: Lot 49)
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 10:17 PM
> Authors don't _directly_ receive
> royalties from sales of used copies.
> But they _indirectly_ get a royalty from them, b/c the
> cover price on
> the original copy (which is the basis for the royalty) is
> higher in a
> market where books can be re-sold than it would be in a
> market where
> books couldn't be resold.  Or in other words, part of
> the price the
> original purchaser pays is for the ability to re-sell the
> book -- both
> for the IP right to do so, but also for a durable product
> (acid-free
> paper, a binding that won't fall apart, etc.) -- and a
> portion of that
> "markup" is passed on to the author in royalties.
> 
> So don't feel too bad for all the authors out there when
> you buy or
> sell a used book.
> 
> Incidentally, on the subject of copyright, here's a funny
> coincidence:
> http://www.amazon.com/Inherent-Vice-Histories-Videotape-Copyright/dp/0822343762/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251424873&sr=1-2
> 
> Considering that this "other IV" came out only in June, I'm
> trying to
> imagine the conversations the author must have had w/ his
> editors @
> Duke UP when he heard about P's IV....
> 
> 
> ****ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS****
> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: The Crying of Lot 49
> 
> Me, I'm always happy to find something online when I need a
> quick
> citation, am not up to typing entire paragraphs, and so on,
> but I do
> tend to have/get hardcopies of most eveything I post from
> here, so ...
> 
> .. though keep in mind, it's not as if anyone's getting
> royalties from
> used copies ...
>