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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
In other words make sure folks in the UK pay the higher prices UK publishers charge.
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As the UK is a much smaller market, UK publishers pretty much
have to charge higher prices.
But it's not just about charging higher prices. Various publishers have exclusive rights to titles in their area. The intent is that if you buy the title, you buy from them, and they get the revenue for the sale.
The publishers are not drawing a distinction between paper and electronic editions in terms of territorial rights unless the contract does.
In the case of the higher charging UK publisher, if I'm that publisher, I may not be
able to match the pricing offered by, say, a US entity, and see a real chance of going out of business if I can't enforce territorial rights.
It will be interesting to see where this goes. I can't think of a simple solution.
(Note to MR posters in other threads advocating revenue sharing deals: that's simple to
say, buit
not to implement.)
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Dennis