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Originally Posted by asjogren
Geographical Restrictions send me to the darknet. NOTHING else does.
If they don't want to sell it to me....
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Pretty much the sum of it.
Then naturally, they (the publishers), jump up and down and bemoan the rise of piracy but still continue on without making changes to the way they distribute ebooks.
Contracts with new authors and renegotiated contracts with older established authors could reflect region removal if they want to bring back those people and encourage buying ebooks.
It is really up to them how they approach the situation, but in the meantime more and more people taking up ebook reading will turn elsewhere to acquire their books.
I did read though that Hachette has signed up with Redgroup here. Amazing what opening up a competitor does to prices and availability (though that does remain to be seen)
The drawback is agency pricing....