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.
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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.
