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Old 02-08-2010, 09:29 AM   #9
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We need a business model that allows readers to buy books without restrictions due to the store they shop at or the country in which they live
The only mechanism I know of for this currently is for publishers and authors/agents to convert georestricted ebook rights into worldwide non-exclusive rights. This is what Amazon asks for on its DTP from authors and publishers by default, and what Baen gets too. However, this may be to big a pill for publishers to swallow.

An alternative I at one time thought Amazon might be able to broker would be sharing the ebook. If a US publisher has an ebook but the UK publisher does not, then either sell the US ebook to a UK reader but give the UK publisher a percentage (20% perhaps) or have UK ebook stores sell the US ebook under license to the UK publisher with the US publisher getting a percentage. The basic point is that it isn't the georestricted ebook rights that are intrinsically the problem (at least in large markets) it is that not all publishers provide an ebook version.
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