Re: UKNM: Three cheers Amazon UK

[Sajid Mohammed]

It is technically illegal for a UK retailer to sell US editions of

books that have a UK edition in print, so any retailer operating in

this country would be obligated to sell UK editions, regardless of any

cost saving.


It has been alleged that Borders have been unintentionally infringing

the law on this one by selling US editions that they have imported

into the UK with their own fair hands...I don't think PC Plod has

caught onto them yet though.


Whether this practice is of earth-shattering consequence is hard to

tell, as it would seem that many big publishers are part of a global

operation (e.g. HarperCollins are part of Murdoch's empire) so in the

big scheme of things a sale is a sale.


Once again, the Net renders borders useless...(not a pun, I promise)


Sajid Mohammed


---Nick Sweeney <

nsweeneyjesus [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk

> wrote:

>

> > The only ones that Amazon.co.uk sell are ones that aren't

available as UK

> > editions - something to do with the way that publishing contracts

carve up

> > territories. So they sell all UK books in print (about 1.2 million

titles) and

> > about 200,000 US titles.

> 

> Not quite so - if you look, for instance, for Po Bronson's novels,

you'll

> see that there's a choice between the two, and quite a saving to be

made

> on the US editions. That said, they're much tackier-looking than the

UK

> ones.

> 

> Nick

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