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  1. You get the award for the most incoherent post.
  2. You must keep in mind what contracts are all about. Like all standard contracts, the contract between the publisher and the seller did not say that the seller does not own the book if the publisher's conditions are not met. On the contrary, all the contract said was that if the seller violates its promise to not sell the book before a certain time, the publisher is legally entitled to a remedy. And in contract law, the standard remedy is monetary compensation. Contract law does not say that you must perform your contractual obligations; it says only that you must perform your contractual obligations or pay damages to the injured party. The normal form of damages is expectation damages, which say that the offending party must put the injured party, monetarily, in the position the he would have been in if the contract had been performed. Contract law imposes obligations only on the parties to a contract. The buyer was not a party to the contract between the publisher and the seller and thus has no obligations to either, beyond paying for the book. Therefore, the publisher has no claim, under the contract, against the buyer. He can only bring a civil suit against the seller for violation of contract.
  3. This book ends badly due to its unresolved philosophical contradictions. But despite its contradictions, Martin Eden is truly a great and inspiring American novel. If one is starved for a vibrantly written book about an individual's single-minded, heroic and epic struggle to improve his life, to take himself from an illiterate working-class sailor to one of America's greatest and most powerful writers (all because of the beauty of a woman), then I highly reccommend Jack London's Martin Eden. The writing is full of beauty and passion, life and energy, vigor and power, just like London's hero. The colors and images that London paints will burn in your brain long after you put the book down. Tragically, the book ends poorly, just as London tragically ended his life (at the age of forty) as a socialist. But in Martin Eden, London reveals a violently independent (if not a little confused) spirit with a remarkable lust for life. This book is a must read.
  4. I would like to add that, generally speaking, 3rd parties have no rights under a contract. Just as 3rd parties cannot lose any rights under a contract, so 3rd parties cannot gain any rights. Thus, 3rd parties cannot sue for breach of contract. Only parties to a contract can sue for breach of contract.
  5. A very succinct article on why corporate collusion cannot work in a free market can be found in Rand's Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. It is called "Common Fallacies About Capitalism," written by Nathaniel Branden.
  6. There is nothing heavier than Jimi Hendrix. He is the most bitchin guitar player that ever lived.
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