a:69:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:14:"comment_author";s:12:"David Hewson";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:28:"david.hewson@davidhewson.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:0:"";s:15:"comment_content";s:937:"There are issues to do with book availability in some markets. But I don't think piracy is going to answer them. Ebook distribution is still being built and there are rights issues to be settled before it can reach corners of the world like SE Asia. Technically this is mostly 'open market' so my books can be sold there in UK and US editions, from different publishers for example. How that translates into a single ebook service I've no idea... but a lot of people seem to be downloading Amazon Kindle now from Uk-based accounts which work anywhere in the world.

But rights are beyond me frankly.

Incidentally India is one of the fastest-growing English language book markets in the world right now. I hope to tour there before long.

Sadly I only spent one day in KL, which was packed with interviews with some very knowledgeable book people, one of whom had read everything I'd written (including a few titles I'd forgotten about).";s:14:"comment_parent";s:4:"2594";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"1";s:7:"user_ip";s:13:"84.93.138.174";s:10:"user_agent";s:128:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13";s:8:"referrer";s:67:"http://davidhewson.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?p=7508&approved=1";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:9:"user_role";s:13:"administrator";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:22:"POST_newcomment_author";s:0:"";s:28:"POST_newcomment_author_email";s:0:"";s:26:"POST_newcomment_author_url";s:0:"";s:12:"POST_user_ID";s:1:"1";s:11:"POST_action";s:15:"replyto-comment";s:15:"POST_comment_ID";s:4:"2594";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:11:"POST_status";s:0:"";s:13:"POST_position";s:2:"-1";s:13:"POST_checkbox";s:1:"1";s:9:"POST_mode";s:6:"detail";s:32:"POST__ajax_nonce-replyto-comment";s:10:"3a059abb76";s:32:"POST__wp_unfiltered_html_comment";s:10:"bf36b01e7f";s:12:"POST_content";s:938:"There are issues to do with book availability in some markets. But I don't think piracy is going to answer them. Ebook distribution is still being built and there are rights issues to be settled before it can reach corners of the world like SE Asia. Technically this is mostly 'open market' so my books can be sold there in UK and US editions, from different publishers for example. How that translates into a single ebook service I've no idea... but a lot of people seem to be downloading Amazon Kindle now from Uk-based accounts which work anywhere in the world.

But rights are beyond me frankly.

Incidentally India is one of the fastest-growing English language book markets in the world right now. I hope to tour there before long.

Sadly I only spent one day in KL, which was packed with interviews with some very knowledgeable book people, one of whom had read everything I'd written (including a few titles I'd forgotten about). ";s:7:"POST_id";s:4:"7508";s:21:"POST_comments_listing";s:3:"all";s:6:"POST_p";s:4:"7508";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:24:"/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1270";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:3:"*/*";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:30:"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:17:"gzip,deflate,sdch";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:26:"en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"HTTP_ORIGIN";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:67:"http://davidhewson.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?p=7508&approved=1";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:128:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13";s:21:"HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH";s:14:"XMLHttpRequest";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:13:"84.93.138.174";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"58691";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:66:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:24:"/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.1";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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