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Originally Posted by Pushka
You say that the point of sale is my PC, and what I am saying is that the legislation in Australia makes no discrimination between ebook and paperback for personal use.
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I'm afraid it's entirely irrelevent what Australian law says. If you buy from an American bookstore, it's US law that applies; if you buy from a British bookstore, UK law applies, and in both those countries, the law says that the point of sale for an eBook is the customer's location. The bookstore has no say in the matter; they have to obey the law in the country in which they are located.
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Your point I think, is that it is the author who is preventing these books being sold 'across the world' because they have not agreed to ebook sales in all countries. But in most other discussions, mainly about Australia, the 'blame' has been put to Publishers, and here anyway, they are the ones coming out as the villains. If your proposition is correct, then why aren't authors getting the 'blame'?
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Because it's easier to blame the publishers as being big evil corporations, I'd guess. It honestly is the author who makes the decision about what rights to grant to the publisher.
I can understand authors like JK Rowlings who stop ebook production entirely, but it doesn't make sense they would say, publish my book in every country but only let USA people have the ebook version.[/QUOTE]