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Originally Posted by greenapple
Is there any party that benefit from not getting that ebook sold?
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No, but that's an extreme case. It usually means that the publisher who acquired the rights for your geographical location hasn't managed / bothered to release an ebook yet.
Why are there different regions anyway? It's all got to do with perceived or real purchase power, economic situation, per capita income, etc. So there is this ebook (or software) you want to sell. People in Thirdworldistan won't be able to afford US prices, so rather than force them to the darknet we sell to them at a big discount: it's less money (per copy), but still better than nothing. If this is software in an obscure language (read: non-English) the danger of it leaking back to our home market is negligible. But with English ebooks, that's precisely what'd happen: if there were no geo restrictions you could (heaven forbid!) buy your book where it's actually cheapest, instead of having the agency price shoved down your throat.
You'll agree that we can't have that...