If the Supreme Court interprets copyright law such that books manufactured abroad may be legally sold to U.S. college students for the same price as they are sold to, for example, Indian students, the publishers argue, all hell will break loose. "Copies of foreign editions would be imported en masse, by large campus-based bookstores, Internet resellers, and others," they write. "The loss of revenue from domestic editions would drastically reduce the ability of publishers to compensate authors for their work and lead to significant changes in the publishers’ business models which, in turn, will cause ripple effects beyond the publishing industry."

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by Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed.

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