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Topic: Omnibus Press

22nd Oct 2019, 2:14 AM
	ppint. Member since Aug 2012 6393 Points	@the_vinyl_junkie: thanks: i didn't know this of omnibus press titles (& i don't for that matter know that/whether/if *all* omnibus press titles are distributed in the uk); @jj: it's a poser, isn't it: re-flagging books, cds &/or lps "international" (or "europe", or "bootleg" for that matter) actually often reduces the information provided rather than increasing it, because it removes the originating publisher's country where this is a known thing, and a single entity, overwriting it with the very non-specific "distributed commercially in more than one country" meaning, which doesn't discriminate between "whole world", "whole world excluding china & russia", "whole world excluding china, russia and usa", " whole world excluding china, russia, usa & canada" ,. ..through "just all of europe" or "the european union".. (which are all meanings the book & music megacorpses apply to "international"..) ..through just "uk & republic of ireland" - or any other two countries, for that matter... - the "international problem" does need an answer that works for the way the book and pre-recorded music publishing world currently works (& has recently worked - say, since about 1980), doesn't gum up representing how it used to work, applies across all of 45worlds - is hopefully sufficiently flexible to cope with the publishing world's next brainstorm of international megacorpsification - and is easily - immediately? - understandable to people who just come here to browse and add their collections; quite a tall order... - the discussion between lee wrecker, philmh and myself in "cdworld" on the elektra/rhino reissue of the doors' "strange days", item, gives more detail, thoughts and some suggestions on the problem, and i think they're both liable to know an awful lot more about the australasian (& southeast asian ?) cd & book "local" publishing & distribution of european, s.e. asian & merkin-originated items, than does this ppint. - but in the short term, yes, not re-flagging as "international" books that happen to bear more than one country's price on their cover or cds distributed in more than one country (or "commercial territory"), but were published by a single national company or subsidiary of an international megapublisher from one country would seem to be sensibler than overwriting "uk" or "ireland" or "usa" or "canada" or "australia" in which it was actually published: - other countries (or "commercial territories") in which the same edition has been commercially distributed can be given in the notes and in comments, increasng the information we provide, rather than decreasing it - no? Edited by ppint. on 22nd Oct 2019, 2:34 AM