Comments | bluetyson: Books NOT Bought

bluetyson

Books NOT Bought

Oct 21, 2009 18:21

Fictionwise sent out an email, presumably because I let my Buywise membership lapse, thinking it maybe not worth it ( Read more... )

georestrictions, lost sales, publishers not selling, ebooks

Comments 4

peadarog October 21 2009, 08:46:56 UTC

I feel your pain. I have used all the loopholes to buy stuff myself. The Australian system sounds particularly hilarious, though.

bluetyson October 21 2009, 09:54:00 UTC

We are a publishing banana republic.

Ah, Ireland a similar situation to Aus/NZ as far as rights I would have guessed - which you have confirmed.

Americans don't read a lot, Australians more so, UK too, any idea about there, per capita?

peadarog October 21 2009, 10:44:42 UTC

A statistic from a few years ago said we read more than anybody else per capita. I don't know if that still holds or even how accurate it was in the first place. We do read buy a lot of books however.

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bluetyson October 21 2009, 09:50:01 UTC

In France, too? Even stranger. How many books in English get French editions, percentagewise?

How many get French editions _in English_? That sounds pretty loopy.

Any idea how much of the French population would actually buy work in English? Nobody would set up online shops selling English work would they? Are there any of the multilingual variety?

Have to work up some sort of equation for percentage of sales lost.

If it happens in all those countries too, and South America as I have seen mentioned, starting to get to a pretty serious number.