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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
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).
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You may be willing to to ignore the laws conveying rights to particular territories and simply grab from the darknet.
Publishers do
not have the option of simply ignoring the law. They must abide by territorial restrictions on contracts.
It
won't be sorted out quickly, because it
can't be. You have decades of accumulated international legal infrastructure and practice, and that
doesn't go away overnight, even if all concerned agree it
should. (And all concerned almost certainly don't agree.)
If you have a workable suggestion for what publishers can do
now to address this, beyond "contract for world wide ebook rights when they acquire a title" (which is likely what they
are doing now if they have any sense). I'd love to hear it.
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Dennis