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Originally Posted by mwdowns
What makes it so difficult for B&N as opposed to Borders or Amazon or any of the myriad other online eBook retailers?
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There are no myriad of other Ebook retailers selling e-books outside the US
There is only 1 US e-book store that somehow was able to get permission from the publishers to sell e-books outside the US, and that is Amazon.
All other US bookstores have been forced by the publishers to implement strict geo-restrictions, and are not allowed to sell their books outside the US.
Borders/Kobo is the only other exception. Borders is using the Kobo bookstore. Kobo is a Canadian company, and it seems that at the moment Canadian publishers have not (yet) forced bookstores to implement geo-restrictions.
This is not just a US problem. In the UK Waterstones and WH Smith used to sell their books outside the UK. When last year the agency model was introduced in the UK, the agency publishers forced Waterstones and WH Smith to stop selling their books outside the UK.
And Amazon UK also just sells books to the UK. Everyone outside the UK (even in Europe) has to buy their books from amazon US.
In the UK their have already been complaints by UK publishers that Amazon US makes it to easy to buy their books outside the US, and they want Amazon to implement stricter geo-restrictions.