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Originally Posted by sabredog
Truly, that is splitting hairs.
A lot of agency 5 titles are restricted sale wise to Australia and other countries. One only has to see what is offered to US residents on Amazon to what is available to Australians. That is not Amazon's fault or the author's, rather those 5 publishers who offer such restrictive contracts purely to keep flogging a dying distribution model.
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I'm sorry to disagree, but it's not "splitting hairs". If a publisher does not have the legal right to distribute an eBook outside the USA,
because the author only assigned them the US rights to the book, then the blame for that lies squarely in the lap of the author.
This certainly isn't the reason for all geographical restrictions - eg B&N simply choose not to sell books to anyone outside the US - but it's certainly the primary reason that sites such as Amazon impose restrictions on particular books.