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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's even worse than that. In many cases, the UK publisher isn't even offering eBooks for sale.
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Hmmmm.... unexpected as it might be, I think the UK publishers are right.
Copyright law is supposed to protect publishers from one another, and they were right to threaten legal action upon their customers being poached by competitors with no rights in their jurisdiction. (Even if they do not offer the book themselves.)
The problem needs to be fixed by electronic rights not being territorialized in author's/publisher's contracts.
In the meantime, people screwed over by company's living with their rights have preeminently practical, if legally murky, ways of helping themselves. I'm for that too.
- Ahi