Thread: eBooks from Waterstones.com longer selling eBooks outside of the UK and Eire
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Old 11-04-2010, 09:33 AM   #89
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Originally Posted by sabredog View Post
Interesting though that Australian authors are geo-restricted to selling ebooks to their country of origin.
That's only going to be the case if the Australian author signed with a non-Australian publisher. Considering that its population is 1/2 that of England and less than 1/10 that of the US, I'm gonna guess that might happen more often than you'd expect.


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Originally Posted by sabredog
The fault lies at agency 5 publishers.
No, it really doesn't.

The overwhelming majority of contracts were written and signed long before ebooks became a viable sales channel (which, I might add, is really only happening now).

Thus, the contracts are already written, and can't be modified without the consent of the author or their estate. The publishers are abiding by their contracts. Even though it inconveniences a small handful of readers, it is patently absurd to blame a company for actually honoring its contracts with its authors.
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