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Old 02-11-2010, 12:21 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma View Post
Wait. Let me get my head around this.

The decision to allow ebook rights globally rests with BOTH publishers and authors?

Not just publishers?
As I understand it, the author can (and often does) sell the rights to different publishers, each of which covers different territories. If the US publisher releases an e-book, but the UK publisher can't be bothered, you can get the effect that UK customers can see the book on Amazon, but not buy it.

They aren't selling geographical rights to ebooks per se, I suspect, but the ebook rights are being bundled with those for physical books.
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