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That same also applies in the case of overseas sellers of digital products where the New Zealand IRD may or may not have "required" them to be GST registered as is the case for ebooks and return GST. "Required" is in " " because in fact New Zealand of course has no jurisdiction whatsoever over overseas sellers so it is largely a ploy. My experience is that Kobo and Amazon, for example, have increased their ebook prices since GST was levied - whether such a supplier is actually GST registered or not, whether they pay or not any GST to IRD, and whether they correctly assess the amount of GST to be collected and paid on digital products is their responsibility. Last edited by AnotherCat; 02-11-2018 at 12:58 AM. |
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Buying from a smaller retailer that is not required to collect NZ GST avoids the issue, but most of the smaller retailers are DRM-free so they can't sell most of the big publishers' books, which tend to be the ones that have geographical restrictions. But it is not an impossible situation, just a more complicated one now that ebooks are taxed. |
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They do sometimes become available. Raymond Feist’s Magician Apprentice/Master books sometime recently became available again in the US. I believe they were unavailable for some period of time.
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As far as geo restrictions, as far as I know, there isn't anything in any treaty that forces it. It's simply a business matter that is enforced via contracts. There is nothing that keeps an author from signing a contract that gives world wide ebooks rights to a specific publisher. The only reason that an author wouldn't sign a world wide ebook contract is because that author had already signed a contract that gave the ebook rights in a specific location to someone else or the publisher wasn't interested in the world wide rights. |
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Yep. Most books don't earn back their advance. If an author signs deals with two publishers, he gets two advances.
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A number of posters have mentioned numerous times that it is often more profitable for the author to divvy up ebook rights geographically than to grant exclusive world wide rights to a single publisher. Maybe authors should consider granting, and publishers accepting, non-exclusive world wide ebook rights, or separating ebook rights from pbook rights. |
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the book on kobo is a different book in the USA. I am looking for the novel buy Pierre Boulle or maybe since I am in America I can not get it
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The Pierre Boulle one (trans. Xan Fielding, Pub. Vintage Books, London) is on Kobo, at least, as well as a number of others on the same subject but different names. I know the Boulle book well as I have a copy and this discussion has prompted me to put it near the top of my reading list for a reread . |
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My main point is that geo restrictions is a contract issue tied to business models rather than something that is tied to treaty or copyright law. |
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Does an author get two advances in that case? I had always assumed that authors tend to sign with a primary publisher who gave the advance, while the other publisher didn't. Can't say that I've actually tried to research that question though.
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No, each publisher pays an advance. That's why authors do this.
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how would you create rules that oppose geo restrictions? I can't see how you could do that without international agreement. I suppose some country could go it alone and declare that once a work is released somewhere in the world it must be made available there within a reasonable time. But that's a pretty aggressive stance. It wouldn't surprise me if it's effectively outlawed by current agreements. Either way, whether it's go-it-alone or new internationally agreed rules, I think it would take a lot of political will to implement this. And the cases where works are unavailable probably aren't common enough to create the support the politicians would need, when there's a lot of vested interest in the current system. |
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