After Barnes and Noble recently merged with the website Fictionwise in order to boost their e-book sales, a great controversy has surfaced. Basically, there are some new restrictions that may prevent consumers from purchasing e-books from other countries. There are going to be new boundary laws or provisions. So, in saying this, we can’t help but ask will e-book distributing sites have to purchase separate licenses for each country or how does this work exactly? It is said that these new licensing restrictions are overdue. Fictionwise also said that their decision to merge with Barnes and Noble has nothing to do with this recent shift.
From my understanding, these new restrictions on content are meant to better the e-book publishing industry. The question was raised about these restrictions having any relation to the reason why Amazon is only selling the Kindle within the US? Maybe.
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Great blog. Some of the posts(articles) are really interesting.
Posted by Phil | January 31, 2010 7:46 AM
Posted on January 31, 2010 07:46