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Originally Posted by jbcohen
I believe, and forum members please correct me if I am wrong, that the issue here is one of franchise vs a centralized business. Franchises are stores such as Amazon and Borders, these have branches of their company in different countries and as such will require that you deal with the branch in your approrpiate country. Some branches of franchises are better stocked than other branches are as Kerrys has seen. On the other hand the centralized business are companies such as ebooks that does not have different branches in different countries and instead you buy from the same company no matter where you are and as such the catalog does not differ if you are in the US or the land down under. I believe that ebooks could care less where you are for sales purposes.
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Actually, the main reason publishers and ebook store owners give for georestrictions is that it's a legacy of the way the rights to publish a paper book would be sold piecemeal, e.g. the Harry Potter books are published by Bloomsbury Publishing in the UK and Arthur A. Levine Books in the US.