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Why have some publishers stopped printing Indian edition books?
- Rohitcss 1y agoNot surprising at all considering overall lesser demand of printed material in addition to the decline in printing international editions.
- billy99k 1y agoI used to be in the book business. We would constantly see students and other sellers try to pass off Indian editions as the regular edition, and charge full price. When I was in college, I made the mistake of buying an Indian edition for a class, thinking it was the same. It had much less content and the problem sets were completely different. It ended up being unusable and I had to buy the regular edition.
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- potato-peeler 1y ago> Kirtsaeng counter-argued that the first-sale doctrine rendered copyright no longer applicable I remember before this case, books used to have a clause in its first page that resell or distribution is not allowed. So according to the first-sale doctrine, that clause has no enforceability?
- philipkglass 1y agoYes, the US Supreme Court ruled it unenforceable in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Sons,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_So.... But it was easy to find resellers ignoring those restrictions before. I got some expensive scientific books that way in 2004.