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Originally Posted by neilmarr
The reason for that, Caz, is that a treebook's legal point of sale is where it is bought and dispatched from, so if you order, say, a paperback in the USA, you're buying the authorised version locally. An ebook's point of sale, though, is the actual location of the device onto which it is downloaded so the holder of US rights may be different from the holder of rights in the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, etc, etc.
The only way around this will be for agents and publishers get around a table and discuss some kind of international rights deal (possibly shared) so that print sales are still maximised by individual publishers who know their local markets but ebook rights are internationally shared and available to online buyers anywhere.
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You would think that this would be slightly easier than deciding on world peace or banishing poverty but I guess the book publishers don't think so
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At least you had the sense to see that your own business would run much better if you had the international rights sorted out - and I would bet that you suffer less from piracy than publishers who try to
stop people being able to buy their product!