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Originally Posted by treetotree
Why is it that a book is not available universally? I would think the publisher would want to sell as many books as possible.
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I'm sure the publisher would love to sell as many as possible, but the way authors/agents sell books is by contracting rights for a specific region and from what I've read very few have been willing to sell the ebook rights as global since most publishers expect ebook rights as part of a pbook rights contract. Hopefully that will change as ebooks become more and more prevalent. Ironically there wasn't much of a problem until ebooks started gaining popularity and non-US publishers started exercising their rights and putting out their own ebook editions, before that the restrictions were seldom enforced. IMO geo restrictions are a big contributing factor to 'piracy'.