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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
... my book gets interest from foreign publishers. A British publisher contracts to do a UK edition. French, German, and Spanish publishers contract to issue translations in their markets.
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Ah, but I'm happy to buy the US edition, just the way it is. No further editing, translation, nothing. I'm prepared to pay the full asking price. And that works: I can order any book from Amazon.com and they will happily ship it to me. I pay for shipping and taxes and all is well. Not so with ebooks, however.
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Okay, what about ebooks? Those are cross-border by definition, because the Internet is world-wide, and there is no physical reason someone on this side of the world can't access a book published on the other side. There are legal reasons.
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I don't know how I can make this any clearer: nobody gives a flying F. Nobody. Sort this out, quickly, by any and all means necessary, or alienate (potential) customers who will simply spend their book dollars elsewhere (or turn to dark channels if desperate enough).