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Originally Posted by bentley
Is this pissing anyone else off, at least half the books I want are only available in the US?
I suspect this has something to do with copyrights blah blah blah but does anyone know if this is likely to change in the foreseeable future.
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It'll only likely change as new contracts are signed, if publishers want to and can secure international electronic rights. Hatchette Book Group is a big one for having the rstriction.
That or the publishers in other areas that already have those rights need to get working on putting out ebooks of their own.
A lot of UK publishers are the ones who hold English language rights for Europe and sometimes Canada too as I understand it. Amazon has said it's waiting to bring out the Kindle in the UK until they can have a large offering of books like they did for the K1 (90,000+). I'm not sure what the state of ebooks from UK publishers is at the moment.