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Originally Posted by Hitch
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
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I tried to find the mythical KGStudios on the net and found nothing. If I had the rights to the Merlin Trilogy, I'd have made very well formatted versions and I'd be distributing them to any eBookstore I could. I'd be doing eveything to let these shops know this is legal. But I think this is very illegal as KGStudios is not a real business and if the only place they can find to put them up is SW, then what was done was to find a place very lax at checking copyright.