Interesting though that Australian authors are geo-restricted to selling ebooks to their country of origin.
Contracts and the conditions within are drawn up by the publishers themselves then offered to authors. Once the publishers start offering authors better options to sell their books in ebook format to other regions then nothing will ever change.
The fault lies at agency 5 publishers. When we draw contracts up for contractors they must abide by the conditions we set as a local council, not negotiate for a better one.
Better known and more successful authors naturally do have some scope to negotiate, but not a great deal.
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