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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: the ultimate IF archive
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"Ice9" <IceNine@oddball.com> wrote in message
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> (Oh, and what's wrong with 'license'??  It's in my dictionary.)

In English, "to license" is the verb, and the contract is a "licence".  U.S.
English has "license" as a alternate spelling of "licence", but the two
forms are often interchanged.  I think I do it occasionally too (it's hard
being an English speaker in an American industry -- see how many software
archives include a LICENCE.TXT file these days :) ), but strictly speaking
one licenses something by issuing a licence.

> The cover of every book I have ever read has told me that I
> can't sell it, but how many second hand bookstores are there?

I've *never* seen that restriction on any book.  The two that are often
seen, as Adam pointed out, are:

"This book is sold on the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or
otherwise, be lent, hired out, resold or otherwise circulated without the
publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in
which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the
subsequent purchaser."

"If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that it was
reported to the publisher as UNSOLD and DESTROYED, and that this 'stripped
book' is stolen property."

This is because publishers distribute cheap paperbacks almost by the ton to
the bookstores, and will accept the front cover back as evidence that the
book was unsold and has been destroyed.  The publishers then refund the cost
of the book to the bookstore.  A practice which is regrettably commonplace
is for an unscrupulous bookseller to strip the book and then sell it anyway;
the other thing that sometimes happens is that the bookseller quite
legitimately strips the books, and then throws them away or sends them to an
incinerator as they should, but along the way someone purloins them and
sells them on.  Either way, the book is legally considered stolen (the
publisher has bought the books back and instructed the bookseller destroy
them, which is of course the owner's right).

--
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)


