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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Georestrictions are stupid. Plain and simple. If I cannot buy an eBook sold by a store in the UK, then why can I buy the same exact book at the same exact store but in paper? What is the difference? NONE AT ALL! Point of sale should either be where I am buying the book or where I am at the time of purchase. But to have both is asinine.
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I'm not saying it isn't dumb. My point to the OP was that you couldn't simply blame the publisher. The publishers are all dealing with existing rights ownership issues. Going forward, you can expect publishers acquiring new books to explicitly acquire worldwide electronic right precisely to avoid this problem. Right now, in many cases, they simply don't have the electronic rights in all areas, and
can't legally sell the ebook everywhere.
You can claim the exists laws governing the commence are stupid, but you can't say a publisher is stupid for not wanting to
break the laws.
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Dennis