Thread: Dealing with Amazon can be a right pain
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Old 10-21-2016, 10:55 AM   #100
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Originally Posted by darryl View Post
I agree with you. Geo-restrictions on digital content on the Internet are ridiculous. Amazon can't do much about it with third party books where they have rights only to the US. But Kindle Worlds are under the control of Amazon. I believe that the contracts for the authors who write in those worlds license Amazon to sell the stories worldwide. From what I can see Amazon is in control of where these stories are sold. Amazon may have a good reason for restricting these books to the US, but if so it is not apparent. When first rolling out the program it may make some sense to have a trial in only one country, but the program seems to be well past its pilot stage now!
Kindle Worlds itself is based on rights granted by the original Author/Publisher - the right to create a derivative work. And those rights may already by split by region - think different publishers in different parts of the world. I suspect by restricting it to the US Amazon is just simplifying the process for itself.
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