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Authors Group Admonishes Amazon for Selling Used Books Online
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posted by md
on Tuesday April 16, @11:06AM
from the what's-that-about-first-use-doctrine dept.
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Author trade group the Author's Guild last week called for a boycott of online bookseller Amazon.com because of Amazon's practice of selling used books alongside its new ones. The Guild apparently considers it unfair to use authors' own works (the new books) to attract sales of used books, for which the authors do not receive any financial remuneration beyond what the original buyer paid. Amazon fought back yesterday by calling on its users [Newsbytes coverage] to push back against the Guild's claims, with CEO Jeff Bezos arguing that the sale of used books actually helps authors by expanding the distribution of books to those who might not otherwise buy them, but for the price.
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This is yet another example of an industry group speaking for its members when it probably shouldn't. Just last week the ABA threatened to go on record in favor of copyright extension, and some months ago, certain trade groups were taking sides in the Sklyarov case. I wonder how many people are really involved in these promulgations of group opinion. Probably less than a handful.
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Kolya
(reversethis-{ude.dravrah.wal} {ta} {reborcmk})
on Saturday April 20, @04:59PM (#54)
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More than that, I'd think. Even if the group opinions aren't entirely accurate or representative of their members, it blocks out the issues in (relatively) clear interest group fronts. Recording artists for pay-for-play, recording executive against. Hardware manufacturers for regional encoding, software gurus against. It may not be the best way to express the positions of the groups' members, but it does frame the issue pretty well for people who wouldn't otherwise pay attention to individual stances.
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