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Originally Posted by Fbone
How would overseas Nook owners purchase ebooks? They can't use the US B&N website due to publisher's restrictions.
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How do overseas Kindle owners purchase ebooks?
Publisher restrictions are geographic, and depend on whether the publisher has the right to sell a book in a particular territory. There's no reason the B&N site couldn't stock electronic titles salable overseas, and use geolocation on the IP address of the purchaser to determine if they can purchase a particular volume. (You might wind up with ebooks on the B&N site
US customers couldn't buy, which would be a grimly amusing reversal of the usual state of affairs.)
It's a good bet that going forward, publishers will want to acquire worldwide ebook rights on titles they publish, precisely to get around such problems.
For that matter, there's no reason B&N couldn't list print volumes on the website salable overseas, though they would have to partner with local enterprises for warehousing and fulfillment.
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Dennis