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Or what you are really saying is the publishers don't want to sell books at the price they charge in the US or UK, but at double (or triple) the price that we usually pay here instead, so they won't sell at all... Given some books are being sold from various publishers, doesn't make a lot of sense.... Last edited by Blue Tyson; 11-20-2010 at 05:13 PM. Reason: missed a t |
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Or to put in your contract - if you take the electronic rights and don't publish within a week or a month or whatever of the print book - in all the markets I gave you rights to - then the rights revert to me. Not hard to work that one out. |
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Hubby signed off electronic rights to his paperback book when he signed the contract a couple of years ago. The publisher said they other day they are just starting to transfer their titles to ebook format.
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Sounds like a poor contract if you sign over rights to something for 2 years and it isn't used and it has not reverted?
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The book is still being published, and at the time, ebooks were hardly the thing. We know better now.
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I know nothing about the AU store, but have been frustrated by geo restrictions. And (this is my view only) bloodymindedness by publishers. Sharon Penman had up until Friday 10 books in the US store and one in the UK. I rang the publishers (Penguin) who told me they were only releasing books in ePub format, for their own website, and had no intention of releasing anything on Amazon. I jumped through hoops and made out I was a US resident and got all they had. And now all but one of her books has disappeared from the US site.
I also emailed the author, and she said she was powerless as the publishers control everything. I have no idea who owns the rights to her back catalogue and it sounds like she doesn't know either! It's all one gigantic mess |
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Calibre will convert epub to mobi. But you need to deal with drm I guess. Google.
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I wasn't advocating a particular position or putting forward my imagined opinion; I was just contributing what had been said to me as an example of the thinking of some people involved in the interaction, and as evidence that, in some cases ar least, it's not just a case of the publishers being selfish and bastardly. |
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I have successfully bought a couple of books not available on the Australian Kindle store via the Sony store and somewhere else I can't remember...Books on Board I think...by providing a US payment method and/or address. It's depressing to think that in 2010 there are still arbitrary restrictions on such things. I understand why it happens (rights, etc.), but I don't understand why it hasn't been fixed yet. I suppose there isn't the financial incentive to organise the contracts, etc. to allow selling overseas. Can't they just let authors sell directly to anybody in a country not covered by their contracts? It is absurd that I can get a paper book delivered across the oceans (using polluting fuels and taking days of time), yet I can't buy a digital copy of that same book. |
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