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Originally Posted by lkmiller
But that's exactly why they insist on enforcement of geo-restrictions -- UK publisher doesn't want to lose sales to US publisher of the same book (or vice versa) and similar situations.
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What UK publisher? In many cases (like Jo Clayton), there's never been a UK publisher for that particular book.
Take Glen Cook, the only UK publisher who has any of his work in print is Gollancz and that's only the first Black Company collection. No other book appears to be in print in the UK apart from The Tower of Fear (apparently from Tor US). Tor UK doesn't even list Glen Cook in their list of authors.
I asked Tor US when Glen Cook's back catalogue would be available in ebook in the UK and never got a reply so I guess the UK rights are in a mess or being squatted on. I should have picked up the Black Company collections when Baen were selling them a while back - I picked up the collected Dread Empire omnibii at that point, but didn't get the Black Company omnibii as well (I think I must have been short of cash and could only afford one).
It is so irritating I see the French, German and Spanish translations on Amazon UK, but not the English versions - which are available in Europe excluding the UK.