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Originally Posted by spideog
What kind of publishing restrictions are there between the UK and Ireland that they have reason to be doing that to me?
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This isn't a gvmt thing, it is a contract between publisher and author thing. Authors get more money overall by having a US and a UK publisher. They would get the most money of all if they could get individual contracts with every single country with an English speaking market. Sometimes the UK and US publisher's rights cover the globe between them and sometimes not. I don't know which publisher of the two would typically get the rights for Ireland, but it looks like in this case either the US publisher got the rights or neither did.
What governments could do to fix this overnight is to say that the ebook needs to be licensed in the country selling the ebook only. This is the way physical book sales work. I don't see this as likely to happen, but it is the only "simple" solution to the ebook rights mess.