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It's bad enough that some publishers are facing this problem without folks putting on the agony by laying the blame clear of the front doorsteps of the darned stores themselves. Very, very often (as with Sony, Waterstones and now B&N) it's quite obvious that the stores impose these restrictions purely and simply for their own convenience.
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There would be no problem at all with the publishers didn't wanted to restrict some of their books in the first place...
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it's quite obvious that the stores impose these restrictions purely and simply for their own convenience.
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Given the mess making such a system can be... I won't blame them. They are acting so because publishers are acting like idiots... Publishers make the shops's life a pain, so the shops make our own life a pain.
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It also means they don't have to fiddle with all the EU's various member-countries' differing Value Added Tax claims, calculate them, fiddle with prices to compensate, and then pay up.
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That didn't pose them any problem before.
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The problem with ebooks is that point-of-sale is everything. A French or German reader can buy a treebook from Amazon in the US because the legal point-of-sale is in the US. Ebooks are different. Legal point-of-sale is the location of the computer used for download (in my case France), so I am denied a book where the publisher of a particular ebook version does not hold European rights.
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Then, why can amazon.fr (last i cheeked, located in france), sell me american p-book ?
And no, this is not understandable at all.
And i don't give a damn whose fault it is. I just want to buy e-books, so they should get their act together.