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Old 07-04-2010, 07:04 AM   #52
harryE123
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan View Post
Do you mean they can negotiate easily with the whole publishing biz AND all the countries where the laws apply? Yes, piece of cake
Terisa next time you are trying to be sarcastic, you might as well not misquote me. I never said easily. They 've figured it out pretty easily how to sell books in print globally, go through customs hassle free, etc. etc. That was even harder than the ebook story.

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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Music DRM was a piece of cake by comparison. Half a dozen companies, who held world-wide rights to their products. Book publishing is a minefield by comparison.
Yes sure it was a piece of cake that's why it was beyond belief back then by the press and the stakeholders that music would ever be drm free. That's why everyone and their brother was developing drm standards, including tec giant microsoft.

Excuse me but I can have any book sent over to me from amazon globally but somehow I don't have the same righ to download globally? How did they overcome the minefield of customs, taxes, global trade rules of selling print books worldwide and they can't do so in ebooks?
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