And the retailer is supposed to say OK we won't bother selling your books when the
Publisher says if you continue to sell in breech of our georestrictions then you will not get stock... Amazon actually does have georestrictions in force but leaves it up to customers to decide what to do... stock on AmazonUK, AmazonUS, AmazonDE etc is NOT identical...
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Further, in many cases it's the retailer that's the problem. Amazon is willing to sell ebooks internationally; Waterstones and Barnes & Noble are not. Will the EU also write a law that forces retailers to sell anywhere in the EU? And then to force publishers to make their content available internationally?
I really don't see this happening. If it ever did, by the time they were actually able to pass any such laws, the availability issues will probably wind up being solved -- especially if this market is anywhere near as lucrative as some folks speculate.
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