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Originally Posted by hannah
I didn't read the whole thread but I often wondered, why, in this geographic restrictions problem for publishers, they didn't include one big ebook-internet in the lists of "countries".
Countries have boundaries, but not selling ebooks to some people on the internet because they don't live at the right place is silly, when you can actually do it for paperbooks (amazon). So why don't they sell the rights for internet/ebooks next to the geographic rights ?
Seems logic for me...
hannah
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Some publishers (
e.g. Baen + a few others) insist on non-exclusive world-wide ebook rights. A few more insist on exclusive world-wide ebook rights.
The problem with both of these positions is that in many cases authors and their agents
have already sold exclusive ebook rights in some parts of the world. If those rights have only been sold in one region, they can try to get that publisher to buy world-wide rights instead. If more than one region, it's time to negotiate non-exclusive world-wide rights.
My general attitude is that publishers, agents and authors should all be thinking in terms of non-exclusive world-wide rights. It just makes the most sense for all concerned. The problem is how to get there from here...
Xenophon