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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
To me it's the same as saying that I can buy that paper book, printed in Germany, FROM Germany. And therefore it's OK to purchase other (legally published) works from outside India (in this case).
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It is, but this is only removing a protectionist barrier that many other countries don't have.
Geo restrictions on ebooks are based on contracts between the authors and publishers. E.g. I am an author, I sign a contract with Random House that grants them the rights to distribute my book in the US and Canada. I then make a separate deal with Penguin India to translate and sell the book in India. As a result, Random House cannot not to sell the book in India, as that's a violation of the contract. The new law doesn't change this.
If the author signs a contract that gives one publisher international ebook rights, then you could legally purchase that ebook without RH needing to work through a local distributor. But if they don't have those international ebook rights, they still can't sell Indians that ebook.
So, it's sort of like you blew up one dam, and there's another one right behind it.
