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Originally Posted by mamasue
yep, am aware that we can't get access to our own authors! and Bryce Courtenay's ebooks are soooooooooo exxy.
can you please explain to me why the publishing houses seem to keep changing availabilty? (geographically?)
those Deaver books I bought on 15 Oct are now not available - are the publishers trying to restrict the sales of ebooks because it affects the sale of paper books?
I didn't think we "ereaders" would be a threat to them just yet!
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If they're selling in some regions but not others, it's because they don't have the rights to those other regions. It's not uncommon -- in fact, it's quite common -- for publishers to only be granted rights for certain regions. It's not because the publishers are evil ... it's because they simply aren't allowed to sell in those regions.
If the book was once available and is no longer available, it's because someone made a mistake -- either on the publisher's end or Kobo's end -- and thought the rights were global when they weren't. Someone probably alerted the publisher to the error and it was corrected.
This happens more often than you'd think. Our company discovered that Amazon was listing some of our paper books for sale in the U.S. when we a) didn't have U.S. rights, and b) had told them we had Canadian rights only. The error was subsequently corrected.
Believe me, it's NOT in the publishers' best interest to restrict the sale of a book to one region only, and if publishers had their way they'd have global rights to every book. It's the agents and authors who restrict rights by region, because that's in THEIR best interest and they have every right to do so.