It's not fictionwise or mobipocket that's the problem. Nor is it even the publishers. It's that contracts drawn up for paper books didn't give sufficient consideration to ebooks.
So there are lots of contracts between authors and publishers that give exclusive publishing rights for paper and ebooks in a particular geographic area to one publisher, and in another area to a different publisher.
One might even argue that it's not the contract that's at fault, but the interpretation of where a sale takes place....
I /hope/ that current and future contracts specify exclusive geographic rights for paper, and non-exclusive world-wide rights for ebooks, but I've no idea if that's so. It the only thing that would make sense IMO, but that rarely means that it's what's happening.
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Originally Posted by GeoffC
yep - mobipocket restricting sales to the UK is also annoying .....
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