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Don't tar all publishers with the same brush, Mr Haines. And don't let Sony and the other major new online ebook stores off the hook so lightly.
Ask them, for instance, why they all flatly refuse to accept titles from publishers without an 'official' US presence and why (on the odd occasion that they do) they slap geographical restrictions on books on which those publishers hold international rights on everything from hardback to paperback to all ebook formats.
My own small independent is based in Canada and we are now forced to open a US office (just a lawyer, an accountant, a bank account, an address and a tax number -- all expensive smoke and mirrors, but legal) to get through the doors of these stores. What ebook stores will carry our titles often will not sell them to customers in the very country where they were written and/or produced.
Good to have your new comany, by the way. Best wishes. Neil
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