Kindle hits the Google problem [cross-posted]

International copyright issues are about to ensnare the Kindle worldwide release.
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/23696
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6701399.html
Agents, publishers worry over integrity of territorial rights, other issues
by Jim Milliot & Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly, 10/12/2009
Amazon has given the international publishing community plenty to ponder as it gathered this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair. The pending (Oct. 19) release of a $279 Kindle that will be available for sale in more than 100 countries has raised a variety of questions. Here are the most pressing. How will the integrity of territorial rights be maintained? What will be the impact of digital editions on the open market? And how will the international selling of English-language editions be priced and released?

An Amazon spokesperson said the e-tailer has worked with publishers to build a database that knows the correct territory where each of the 200,000 English-language titles available for sale through the international Kindle can be sold.... “It should get conversations started about digital books in different areas,” Makinson said, acknowledging, however, that most of those conversations will be among an elite group who have the means, and interest, in buying an e-book, especially one in English. [more]

Despite these assurances it seems many organisations are concerned at the risks.



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