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Originally Posted by Victoria
I bought it from Amazon last year. The publisher says very explicitly in the front that they are copyrighted, and that they bought the exclusive rights for ebooks from the author
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Victoria:
If you're talking, again, about KGStudios' version, what it says is, verbatim: "KGStudios holds the exclusive worldwide rights to digitally distribute this title." It doesn't say bupkus about them buying the rights from the author.
If this is the series of which you speak--which, BTW, is now
not available on Amazon, after a bunch of MR'ers went over there and inquired as to its legality--then my earlier post stands. All KGStudios--which has no web-address, no website, no web-presence at all--has to do is give Amazon a copy of their contract with Stewart, and the books would have been published there. Or even a rights letter. They obviously did neither to Amazon's satisfaction.
If you're talking about a different publisher, I cannot find that publisher now, nor any version of the books. The barrier for entry for backlisted books on Amazon isn't high. KGStudios should have been EASILY able to satisfy Amazon's requirements to prove their rights, to publish that set of books. That they couldn't--and have settled to distribute on SW, ignoring 88-92% of the eBook market--is practically damnation itself.
FWIW.
Hitch