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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
Oh please. It wasn't about agreeing with me.
I wasn't posting about the geographic restrictions. Yes, they're created by publishing deals, though not deliberately by the publishers. It's because companies, anywhere in the world, have limited territoriality. Trying to phrase that as being the publishers' "fault" is verging on churlish.
Given that there are restrictions, I was posting about why Amazon hadn't negotiated past those restrictions here in this region. It's all down to Amazon's 500-pound gorilla tactics. The Prof saying "I don't know about that" and then posting about a different aspect of the issue as if that invalidated what I'd said, meant that he, and now you, are saying oranges invalidate apples.
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Try using small words. That might help. Explain how Amazon is suppose to negotiate the rights to sell books that the Publishers are not making available. While you are at it, try explaining why Sony and Waterstone and other large book stores are not negotiating to make those books available.
I include Waterstone because they use to sell books without worrying about geo restrictions but have recently stopped doing so and have notified customers that they cannot sell the books because it is illegal.
So please explain to me how this is Amazons fault in small words. I promise to use a dictionary to look up anything I don't understand.