Thread: Bought a Kindle book, pages are only images
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Old 05-15-2023, 01:58 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
Yes, and no US e-tailers sell one either (Kobo, Apple, Google anyway). Audiobook is available. The rights might be in dispute in USA.

Wonder what it will take to eliminate regional restrictions for ebooks. Who benefits from them?
In general, various regional publishers that get geographic exclusivity and authors that are able to negotiate more total royalties and advances by dividing the rights than by granting worldwide rights to a single publisher or multiple publishers.

Specific to the US-UK, one of the several bilateral copyright treaties specified a split for english language books. (I'm not able to find the particular one at the moment.)

I suspect the political will to maintain the status quo far exceeds that to get rid of this anachronism.
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