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Still makes the publishers the issue then doesn't it?
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Well, there's nothing stopping an author/agent from including worldwide rights when they first sell the book to the initial publisher. They withhold them wanting to get the most they can out of additional rights contracts. A publisher would be stupid to overlook rights for a format that could very well be huge in coming years.
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It still makes it ridiculous that a dead tree copy can be purchased almost in any region whilst an ebook copy cannot.
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I agree for the most part, but it's much more complicated than just blaming the pubs and retailers.
In a way ebooks are victims of their own success. Until a couple years ago when the UK pubs and a few others started really getting into ebooks geo restrictions weren't anything like what folks have to deal with now.