Dylan, Wouldn't purchase of the book be a deductible business expense for Dylan's Bulbs, assuming you report the income? I'm also curious as to how you know the production costs. Knowing that people are going to copy a book pushes the price up, since the estimated number of copies that will sell is reduced. Fair use for research would apply if the book was out of print and difficult to obtain. Who would want a photocopy anyway? One may as well collect pictures of bulbs instead of growing them in the first place. T > Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:48:33 -0700 > From: othonna@gmail.com > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: Re: [pbs] The Genus Lachenalia - a new book > > See this Wikipedia entry: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photocopy/ > > Other web references present conflicting information, and of course laws > vary by country. So long as the purpose is for research or education, and > does not involve selling or giving away copies, articles and whole books > can be copied and used by secondary consumers. > > If it were not for this principle then no plantsman would have copies of > articles from journals that are indispensible. How many of us can or would > subscribe to Feddes Repertorium or Kew Bulletin to obtain a few wanted > articles? > > Not that it is directly relevant, but I do not support pirated copies of > music and movies. But when the only means of accessing or owning a > presumably important work on a popular subject is held out at $200, I > object to that. > > > On 28 March 2012 15:34, Bill Lee <blee811@aol.com> wrote: > > > > > In the United States it is a violation of copyright law to photocopy an > > entire book. > > The law permits selective pages within reason, but never an entire book. > > Bill Lee > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/