07-08-2010, 08:46 AM | #91 |
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Not necessarily. Splitting print rights makes sense because distributing print books is geographical by nature. But distributing ebooks is global by nature. So authors can selling the rights for ebooks separately without geographics restrictions because they make less sense. But I think most authors are not aware of the issues because they still live in the 20th century on these matters (as probably also agents and publishers). Time to teach them!
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07-08-2010, 09:27 AM | #92 |
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You just hire a local printer so this is not the relevant factor. The relevant things are targetting the market and things like adapting the language if necessary.
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07-09-2010, 09:29 AM | #93 |
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Agent Kristin has an interesting blog post on this subject. There are also several comments by angry readers. (Mentioned by Teleread)
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Software vendors online have managed to cope with this, but the regional rights issue just complicates things and I suspect most book sellers are just saying - oh the heck with it all, we only sell to those in our own region, where we sort of think we know how to cope with the tax stuff. The regional rights thing just becomes a convenient excuse. It's odd because I've bought e-books from the Sony store in the US (using gift cards purchased by a friend in the US and using her address whenever asked for a "home" address), and Kobo has no problems selling to me in US$ using my US credit card with a French billing address. Waterstones sells to me on my UK credit card (with the same French billing address). Book prices in France are generally outrageous, with a law forbidding the discounting of book prices by more than 5%, so I have yet to be tempted by any e-books here in France. I don't bother with VPNs or anything fancy like that, so I assume all the book vendors know (or could easily find out) where I'm coming from. |
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07-09-2010, 03:54 PM | #95 |
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Don't want to all here, but that comes as a huge surprise to me. Together with the Icelanders the French has always seemed to be very supportive of their culture and language. Making it harder for book sellers to sell books in the French language seems to fly in the face of that notion. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but comparing English and French translations of Japanese literature the French translation most often comes across as superior.
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And yet it's the sad, sad truth. And let's not start talking about the 19.6% VAT on eBooks vs. the 5.5% VAT on paper books... So, yeah, eBook prices in France are nuts. Hopefully that'll change for the better, but we're still way behind on the whole eBook thing for now...
And I can confirm, like bevdeforges, that Waterstones doesn't seem to enforce any geographic restrictions (for now?). I bought something there last week, with a french billing address and & french cc#, from a french IP. Last edited by NiLuJe; 07-09-2010 at 04:42 PM. |
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I liked this comment from an author on Agent Kristins blog:
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Except that most authors would authorise ebook distribution anyway, but the publishers dont follow through. They just want to retain the rights, just in case! My partner writes books; he authorised US and AUS ebook and dtb distribution a couple of years ago, but only the dtb has happened.
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The fact that her geography isn't up to date doesn't mean that her writing about publishing is also defective. And maybe ANZ is a publisher's code for Australia/New Zealand?
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As for the ANZ thing, in publishing circles AUS is also regarded as a separate entity in its own right and has separate copyright restrictions to NZ. New Zealanders aren't allowed access to the kindle for instance. These are basic issues and knowledge of them is integral to her topic. Hence the lack of cred. |
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But the thing that really hurts here in France is the law that forbids discounting on books (well, up to 5% only). It's why Amazon.fr offers free shipping on all books. Even most "popular" books in France, published in what I consider a paperback format, cost 20€ or so. |
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