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Originally Posted by neilmarr
***The big houses, though? Pretty sure most of them are playing games on purpose***
Thing is, Nashira, that rights to a book might be held by different publishers in different countries (indies like my own tend to publish a single international edition). But this is a mere smoke-screen for lazy retailers with agendas of their own. There is absolutely no reason why the major retailers shouldn't get off their arses and simply open retail websites in other countries to deal with local rights in, say, Europe, Australia, Hong Kong. It's all a piece of nonsense and we're all -- readers, writers and publishers -- getting bloody tired of it. Hoots. Neil
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Oh, I realize. I've known the basics of how publishing works for years. But presumably if something is published to ones country in paper,
someone, somewhere has the rights or means to get them for the ebook in the same country. Not saying it's easy as pie all the time - and some Authors (JKR comes to mind) don't want ebooks at all... which might be more short sighted than the publishers dragging their feet, actually. I'd love the HP series (the English version) in ebooks. Sincerely doubt I'm the only one.
...though I do have like two sets of the things in paper.
To the OP: lulu.com also has ebooks
http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.ph...ass=5&fSearch=
Try not to buy PDF's, they're S.O.B's if you ever need to format shift.