- Copyright and Creative Freedom by Mira T. Sundara Rajan (Routledge): priced at $156 on WHSmith and $90 in the Amazon and Sony stores
- International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice by Paul Goldstein (OUP): $165 on ebooks.com
- An Emerging Intellectual Property Paradigm: Perspectives from Canada edited by Ysolde Gendreau (Edward Elgar): $145 on ebooks.com
- Globalising Intellectual Property Rights by Duncan Matthews: $160 from Taylor & Francis
- Research Handbook on the Future of EU Copyright by Estelle Derclaye (Edward Elgar) : $315 on ebooks.com
Sunday, February 14, 2010
E is for expensive
An article in the New York Times on Thursday notes that the prices of ebooks are slated to go up. Customers are outraged. One customer is quoted as saying "$14.82 for the Kindle version is unbelievable." Try $315:
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Heh. A few months ago I had to pay $60 or so for a Sony ebook version of Posner and Landes' The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law since I'm a few thousand miles away from my home university's library. I wonder if these price increases will finally end the debate over whether or not copyright creates monopoly rights (as in this review of William Patry's latest: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/copyright-metaphor-and-monopoly/article1292738/).
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