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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: the ultimate IF archive
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"Matthew Russotto" <russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote in message
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> In article <nUI58.5871$By6.691696@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
> Ben Haines  <becoming@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >Of course they are.  The bindings thing is to prevent booksellers from
> >stripping the book, then binding it in cardboard or something.
>
> This may be against the contract terms between the bookseller and the
> publisher or distributor.  But it is not illegal for a subsequent
> purchaser to rebind the book and resell it.

It's illegal to sell the book without the same condition being imposed upon
the purchaser, according to 90% of the books on the shelf above my monitor
at the moment.  If the book is sold in a different binding, then that was
illegal according to the publisher; but it's moot unless the book was
stripped by the bookseller, in which case the book has been stolen, and so
selling it would be trafficking in stolen property.

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Ben A L Jemmett.
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