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Originally Posted by needfulthings
So what you are saying is because someone relinquished the" It" due to price & owns EOTD & FIRESTARTER are screwed out of being able to buy any more books just because one book was to rich for their blood? Should this party be able to just pass on the one book & not loose their place?
They aren't screwed. They made a decision knowing the repercussions. Perhaps they should have sold EOTD and Firestarter and kept IT. Life is full of difficult decisions...
paper or plastic
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So what you are saying is because someone relinquished the" It" due to price & owns EOTD & FIRESTARTER are screwed out of being able to buy any more books just because one book was to rich for their blood? Should this party be able to just pass on the one book & not loose their place?
They aren't screwed. They made a decision knowing the repercussions. Perhaps they should have sold EOTD and Firestarter and kept IT. Life is full of difficult decisions...
paper or plastic
regular or decaff
butter or margarine
soup or salad
My comment proven
You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
I definitely prefer the method where the proven owner gets rights as opposed to the purchaser. I think it favors collectors over re-sellers, and as a collector, I like that.
For example, as a regular buyer of both Cemetery Dance and Sub Press books, I have always found it easier to coordinate matching copies of Sub Press titles. Miss a title? Cruise eBay and nab it, and the rights to the rest of the series are assured. I have exchanged many emails with Mindy at CD trying to request matching copies for books in a series and I don't think that either of us likes it very much. And it's usually not fruitful. It also makes me hesitate to buy CD books secondhand (at least ones that are part of a series), because then I'm beholden to that seller if I want future titles.
I do agree that with a publisher that essentially prints one run of very limited books, it puts you in a tight spot when an expensive book comes out. But I'm also too jealous of people with Dragon Rebound books to feel very sorry for them
I would also imagine that prototype or PC (or in this case RC) copies probably don't follow those rules, but I've never asked a publisher to match a PC copy for a series so I don't know...
So what you are saying is because someone relinquished the" It" due to price & owns EOTD & FIRESTARTER are screwed out of being able to buy any more books just because one book was to rich for their blood? Should this party be able to just pass on the one book & not loose their place?
Yes, that's right. Although they aren't being 'screwed' out of anything. Makes me think of something my father used to say:
No tickey, no laundry.
Spoiler:
"tickey/ticky/tickie/tiki/tikki/tikkie = ticky or tickey was an old pre-decimal British silver threepenny piece (3d, equating loosely to 1¼p). The tickey slang was in use in 1950s UK (in Birmingham for example, thanks M Bramich), although the slang is more popular in South Africa, from which the British usage seems derived. In South Africa the various spellings refer to a SA threepenny piece, and now the equivalent SA post-decimalisation 2½ cents coin. South African tickey and variations - also meaning 'small' - are first recorded in the 19th century from uncertain roots (according to Partridge and Cassells) - take your pick: African distorted interpretation of 'ticket' or 'threepenny'; from Romany tikeno and tikno (meaning small); from Dutch stukje (meaning a little bit); from Hindustani taka (a stamped silver coin); and/or from early Portuguese 'pataca' and French 'patac'..."
Originally Posted by jsmcmullen92
Also in that boat how do you do it for re-sellers/stores? If they buy bulk of the Portfolio (I know different company but I would assume same rules apply) to sell at their store do they not get the same numbers next time because the end user bought them and now owns the rights to that number?
In a case where a reseller received a publication from me, let's say the portfolio, they would receive the same numbers next time, and then it's up to them to sort it out with their customers.
Originally Posted by T-Dogz_AK47
And what about the current auction for the Prototype Firestarter? Does this mean that the auction winner will get first refusal on the Prototype of IT?
Haven't really thought about it.
Originally Posted by Randall Flagg
They aren't screwed. They made a decision knowing the repercussions. Perhaps they should have sold EOTD and Firestarter and kept IT. Life is full of difficult decisions...
paper or plastic
regular or decaff
butter or margarine
soup or salad
I agree. And the few people who have sold copies have not had any issues with transferring rights. Both buyer and seller have been delighted.
The runs are just too small for everyone to get what they want how they want it; that DR/SE attempts to be as fair and transparent about it as possible (including conversations here) will have to be enough, because it's all there is.
The Firestarter prototype auction ends today at 12pm Pacific time. Several bids have been received. It will be interesting to see where this ends up! Details here: