Authors no longer available @ kobobooks?

[mamasue]

Originally Posted by artig

Have you tried at your local Aussie Kobo ebook retailer? There are lots of Jeffery Deaver ebooks available on Whitcoulls in NZ, so they are definitely available outside North America.

Thank you

will check it out ...

However when I go to kobobooks they only show the content available to Oz & in AUD dollars .. so I can only access those ones anyway

[artig]

I just checked. Angus and Robertson are showing 2 ebooks, and Borders 3, by Jeffery Deaver. Whitcoulls is showing 22, one or two of which may be duplicates. Kobobooks isn't showing any of them. So don't necessarily rely on them showing all the ones which are available to you.

I don't know if Whitcoulls NZ is allowed to or will sell to anyone in Aus, but you can have a look at their selection at http://www.whitcoulls.co.nz/search/j...diatype/EBook/

[Mememememe]

Originally Posted by mamasue

yep, am aware that we can't get access to our own authors! and Bryce Courtenay's ebooks are soooooooooo exxy.

can you please explain to me why the publishing houses seem to keep changing availabilty? (geographically?)

those Deaver books I bought on 15 Oct are now not available - are the publishers trying to restrict the sales of ebooks because it affects the sale of paper books?

I didn't think we "ereaders" would be a threat to them just yet!

If they're selling in some regions but not others, it's because they don't have the rights to those other regions. It's not uncommon -- in fact, it's quite common -- for publishers to only be granted rights for certain regions. It's not because the publishers are evil ... it's because they simply aren't allowed to sell in those regions.

If the book was once available and is no longer available, it's because someone made a mistake -- either on the publisher's end or Kobo's end -- and thought the rights were global when they weren't. Someone probably alerted the publisher to the error and it was corrected.

This happens more often than you'd think. Our company discovered that Amazon was listing some of our paper books for sale in the U.S. when we a) didn't have U.S. rights, and b) had told them we had Canadian rights only. The error was subsequently corrected.

Believe me, it's NOT in the publishers' best interest to restrict the sale of a book to one region only, and if publishers had their way they'd have global rights to every book. It's the agents and authors who restrict rights by region, because that's in THEIR best interest and they have every right to do so.

[mamasue]

@ artig ... I successfully purchased from Whitcoulls yesterday - happy dance!

@ Mememememe ... thank you for your detailed repsonse. I know now to buy when I actually see!