translation rights

Oct 11 2009

The International Digital Rights Mess (or Amazon’s Cock Up)

Over the past year, as more and more readers have become interested in ebooks, we’ve begun to realize one of the biggest problems is the mess of territorial rights. We had Fictionwise and BooksonBoard removing books from its bookstore. Fictionwise went so far as removing access to books that people had already purchased. This past [...]

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May 31 2009

Taking Advantage of a Global English Reading Market

It’s hard for me to tell exactly how many of the readers of Dear Author are from outside North America, but it is not insignificant despite the fact there is no localization of the blog. In other words, we are an English blog that can be run through a translator but is not translated directly. [...]

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