Global distribution

Simon & Schuster announces the establishment of a global distribution service to facilitate world-wide sales of their books. Publishing Perspectives quotes Perminder Mann, CEO of Simon & Schuster U.K. and International: “One of Simon Global’s key aims is to offer more effective global distribution to our authors from our companies whether they’re first published in the US, Canada, U.K., Australia, India, or by VBK in the Netherlands and Belgium . . . More effective worldwide distribution will grow sales and visibility of our publishing, no matter where our books are being sold and distributed. It reinforces our global outlook, our service to our authors and our mission to connect people and books around the world.” So are we moving inexorably toward the end of territoriality in book rights? It almost goes without saying that such a situation would favor the publisher, who’d thereby sell more copies of their edition of the book. The losers (if there are to be losers) would be the…