Deborah
Hopefully you can make the sale price of $2.99 available to your North American customers. Only today and tomorrow.
https://ebooks.faithlife.com/product/167086/god-dwells-among-us-expanding-eden-to-the-ends-of-the-earth
I just can figure out why certain books are restricted to North America, whereas tons of other books are available to all.. what sort of criteria?[*-)]
I just can figure out why certain books are restricted to North America, whereas tons of other books are available to all.. what sort of criteria?
The main issue appears to be publishing rights agreements with Harper Collins (which includes Zondervan and Thomas Nelson). However, IVP is occasionally problematic too. This book is an IVP one.
what sort of criteria?
Faithlife desires to sell you ANY book for which they have the rights to do. Unfortunately, not every book has "global" rights to be sold under a single publisher. If publisher "B" has the rights to sell a book in the EU, for example, then Faithlife can't sell you the book under an agreement with publisher "A." It is complicated and confusing, but do know that Faithlife would love to sell you all of the books you would like, but they are also going to follow the law.
what sort of criteria? Faithlife desires to sell you ANY book for which they have the rights to do. Unfortunately, not every book has "global" rights to be sold under a single publisher. If publisher "B" has the rights to sell a book in the EU, for example, then Faithlife can't sell you the book under an agreement with publisher "A." It is complicated and confusing, but do know that Faithlife would love to sell you all of the books you would like, but they are also going to follow the law.
I believe the issue can be overcome if Faithlife wish. My second favourite Bible software company has no geographical restrictions, because they are able to account for the sales differently. Hopefully Faithlife will be able to meet the publishers' requirements soon.
Sale price is now available on our Faithlife site: https://www.logos.com/product/167086/god-dwells-among-us-expanding-eden-to-the-ends-of-the-earth
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My second favourite Bible software company has no geographical restrictions, because they are able to account for the sales differently
This tells me more about what they carry than anything else. Geographic restrictions are legal constraints usually on what the publisher owns the rights to. The publisher often does not own all the material in a resource. For example, many of the hymns in WatchWords have individual copyrights that must be tracked down in addition to getting overall rights to the annual additions. And each of those copyrights may have regional restrictions. The only way for a company to have no geographical restrictions is to be dishonest, sloppy, cheater of copyright holders ... I speak as someone who has sold rights to written materials and as a friend of someone who has dealt with a significant chunk of international rights.
https://community.logos.com/forums/t/177623.aspx?PageIndex=3
Right, it’s a bummer, but we lost international rights to sell all HarperCollins (HCCP) titles on Faithlife Ebooks. We can only sell HCCP ebooks inside US and territories until we can support localized pricing for our international customers. That means we need to offer their products in local currency, and accept local currency, in every country we want the rights to resell HCCP products. This will involve significant development work and is unlikely to happen soon. I had hoped to have some good news to share. Currently, we’re working to show the restrictions on the product description pages until we can work out a long-term solution. It’s a small gesture, I know. At least you will know about the restriction before you get to checkout. This has NO bearing on Logos. They have entirely different contracts with HCCP. So sorry not to have better news for you. We thank you for all your support and loyalty to our platform!
Right, it’s a bummer, but we lost international rights to sell all HarperCollins (HCCP) titles on Faithlife Ebooks. We can only sell HCCP ebooks inside US and territories until we can support localized pricing for our international customers. That means we need to offer their products in local currency, and accept local currency, in every country we want the rights to resell HCCP products. This will involve significant development work and is unlikely to happen soon. I had hoped to have some good news to share. Currently, we’re working to show the restrictions on the product description pages until we can work out a long-term solution. It’s a small gesture, I know. At least you will know about the restriction before you get to checkout.
This has NO bearing on Logos. They have entirely different contracts with HCCP.
So sorry not to have better news for you. We thank you for all your support and loyalty to our platform!
Dear Deborah, any good news?[:)]
My second favourite Bible software company has no geographical restrictions, because they are able to account for the sales differently This tells me more about what they carry than anything else. Geographic restrictions are legal constraints usually on what the publisher owns the rights to. The publisher often does not own all the material in a resource. For example, many of the hymns in WatchWords have individual copyrights that must be tracked down in addition to getting overall rights to the annual additions. And each of those copyrights may have regional restrictions. The only way for a company to have no geographical restrictions is to be dishonest, sloppy, cheater of copyright holders ... I speak as someone who has sold rights to written materials and as a friend of someone who has dealt with a significant chunk of international rights.
They are able to sell me the Harper Collins ebooks that Faithlife are unable to. It may of course help that they used to be owned by Harper Collins!😉 It appears that the problem for Faithlife is to do with accounting issues and that they could chose to overcome if I understand previous replies from Faithlife employees, but it's deemed low priority.
