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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
The exclusivity clause of KDP Select is a scourge. I hope they get slapped down with an antitrust suit.
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Though it only applies to self-publishing authors and very small publishers.
Larger publishers don't even use KDP and can be on KU without being exclusive.
Amazon has bought some publishers and likely their ebooks are exclusive and not in libraries.
Who publishes "A Thousand Boy Kisses" in the USA?
In the UK it's Penguin.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/4549.../9781405955317
eBook on: Amazon, Apple, Google Playstore Books, Kobo and Hive (who I never heard of.
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Tilli...ation/27454041 )
I was trying to get ebook of Jeanne M. Dams's "Winter of Discontent" and it unlike her other titles is Macmillan USA. She wanted the ebook rights (for Severn or Joffe) as they only had it on paper. Instead they refused and published the ebook.
The paper version can be bought to Ireland or UK from USA (via Amazon who mostly ignore territories for physical stuff they ship). The Macmiilan site claims there is an ebook:
The macmillan links to ebooks go to actual stores!
So it's on Kindle (
but only for USA). It's on Apple (but you need an iThing (no Apple App on Android?), and maybe not UK or Ireland even if you had.
Kobo USA (not UK or Ireland) has only some of her books, not that one.
The ebooks com (which I can use if the publisher hasen't geolimited a title) doesn't have it (only 6 of hers) despite Macmillan links to those two.
And she's a mainstream author published since 1995 and won at least one award! She can't understand why her ebooks are not available everywhere. "It's cyberspace!"
Google Playstore link fails too. They seem to only have some audiobooks by her.
The publishing industry is broken and Amazon is happy with that.
P.S. As well as obvious English Language markets, Malta like Ireland is officially English Speaking in EU (mysteriously some people thought no English in EU after UK leaving). India, Cyprus, Israel, Netherlands, Kenya, Botswana, Philippines.
So USA is only one market.