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Old 11-22-2010, 02:59 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by avantman42 View Post
I suspect it's the publishers rather than Amazon that are insisting on the geo-restrictions.
Technically it is not the Publishers but the folks who are enforcing contract law. Since a Publisher does not sign a contract that gives them the right to distribute a book globally, the book can only be sold by a Publisher in a specific country.

So a book with different Publishers in different countries is going to run into geo-restriction problems.

I don't fully get why it was legal for Amazon (or any book store) to sell a physical book published in the US to someone in Australia and they cannot sell an e-book. That still baffles me.
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