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Originally Posted by Direct Ebooks
This may not change anytime soon as the industry is so used to this model. What we may have though, is savvy authors selling the digital rights to their books to an internet based publiaher or retaining them for non-exclusive distribution themselves.
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The only issue I see here is that many print publishers may balk at the deal if they don't get any digital rights. Then they have to compete with the ebook publisher for sales. I agree it won't change soon. Print is still the bulk of the business and authors won't sacrifice a print publisher relationship to widen ebooks for the present time. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw some publishing alliances to share the profits of ebooks released in multiple countries. Bureaucratic? Yes. Surprising given the kind of transition we're trying to make? Not so much.
On a side note, I'm saddened to see so much spite against Americans here. In general, Americans on this board have been against geographical restrictions as much as anyone else. Besides it's not as if we are just now having restrictions. We just get to see them highlighted because of Amazon's new set up. I hate being critical but that really left a bad taste in my mouth so I felt I should say something.