Thread: WHSmith withdrawing access to Mobipocket and Reader ebooks
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Old 09-15-2010, 03:18 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by omk3 View Post
Does anyone know what those "taxation and contractual issues" are supposed to be? Will all UK ebook stores be enforcing this?
Taxation is VAT, they presumably only want to apply the UK rate. Contractual is geographic restrictions passed on from publishers to retailers.

All ebook retailers (in the US and UK) have to enforce geographic restrictions (or at least, have to appear to do so). Some track the restrictions for each ebook for each country (e.g. Amazon in the US), but others are single-country stores (e.g. Books on Board UK store) so they don't stock an ebook if it isn't for sale in that country.
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