Also from the epublishing world, TeleRead first reported that over the weekend Hachette Book Group pulled its titles from a number of ebook wholesalers–including Ingram Digital, Overdrive, Mobipocket Paris, and BooksonBoard–over longstanding concerns about the enforcement and verifiable reporting of territorial rights provisions to the publisher. HBG’s Maja Thomas confirms the report for Lunch, noting that this has been “an ongoing issue; we’re not an isolated publisher” in dealing the problem. She underscores that “we’re not trying to restrict stales that are legitimate” and “we want the ebook economy to be robust.” At the same time, in its units throughout […]
