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Post by potet on Mar 17, 2022 10:58:59 GMT
I am amazed at the large number of on-line bookstores as well as brick-and-mortar bookstores that have my public titles in their catalogues. I even have the impression they are far numerous than in the past.
In so far as I disconnected from Global Distribution about a year ago, it is obvious the copies they could supply would be those of outdated editions. Now, shall I be paid royalties if a copy is sold?
Perhaps it would be wiser to join Global Distribution again, although I am aware that I'd get only 25% of my royalties from these retailers. What a quandary!
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Mar 17, 2022 22:54:47 GMT
One would assume that if they have physical copies, then they must have bought the books, and you should already have received royalties for them. However, many places list books, it does not mean they have them, just that they can get them (via an ISBN, and a catalogue is not the same as what's on the shelves) but in this case if a customer asks for one, I would expect they will be told it's no longer available.
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Post by potet on Mar 18, 2022 11:22:39 GMT
What you say is true for small brick-and-mortar bookstores.
However, I suspect big companies like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. are sent the electronic files (contents and cover) of each new title and are allowed by Lulu to store them because they have their own printers to the extent that some authors have complained books bought from Amazon are not so professionally manufactured, the Lulu original being of higher quality.
I am now contemplating my return to Global Distribution for a year in order to see whether it is worthwhile.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Mar 18, 2022 19:50:43 GMT
In my limited experience, Lulu's printers (in North America, anyway) are indeed superior to those used by Amazon and LSI.
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Mar 18, 2022 19:59:59 GMT
In theory if a book is removed from Global, then it's classed everywhere as Unavailable, or Discontinued, by the publisher/copyright holder, which you are both. it should not matter if anywhere else has the data files for a book, they should not use it to print off copies. It's surely an infringement?
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Post by potet on Mar 18, 2022 22:11:23 GMT
Yes, an infringement, but how can we prevent it?
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Post by potet on Mar 18, 2022 22:27:57 GMT
In my limited experience, Lulu's printers (in North America, anyway) are indeed superior to those used by Amazon and LSI. Same in France. The Lulu printer is in Mayenne, a town of printers. By the end of WWII, as U.S. troops were approaching, the Germans put explosives on each pillar of a stone bridge. On the 5th of August 1944, G.I. James Douglas Mac Racken courageously climbed down there at night and cut off the cables. A German sentry spotted him and shot him down. Now the bridge bears the U.S. soldier's name, and his sacrifice is commemorated every year by the municipality. |
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Mar 19, 2022 20:07:16 GMT
Yes, an infringement, but how can we prevent it?
I was always under the impression that places do not hold the files created at Lulu required to print a book (apart perhaps KDP) but when an order was placed the files were auto-requested from Lulu, book created, those files deleted by seller. But surely that would only apply to those who actually own book printing machines (again as per KDP) otherwise it's Lulu who have the book created.
So in theory, because you have removed them from Global, no third party should have the files. |
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Post by potet on Mar 20, 2022 11:04:55 GMT
Kevin wrote: "So in theory, because you have removed them from Global, no third party should have the files."
Perhaps you are right. After all, sending files through the internet is no big deal.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Mar 20, 2022 14:56:11 GMT
Part of the problem may lie be removing a title from Global Distribution is one thing, but the removal trickling out to various outlets and how quickly the outlets act on the information is another.
Add in the "upgrade" to new and improved function.
I retired all print versions of my work at Lulu Press as soon as that function was returned and it took the better part of a year for them to show as "Unavailable" or "Out of Print".
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Mar 20, 2022 19:45:51 GMT
A year? that's ridiculous. It's the internet, it should be instant.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Mar 20, 2022 20:55:53 GMT
A year? that's ridiculous. It's the internet, it should be instant. Still, changes such as getting off Global Distribution, Retiring a book, or releasing new titles all take varying amounts of time. |
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