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Originally Posted by karunaji
It is about publishers artificially restricting rights and signing georestricted contracts between themselves.
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No.
It's about
authors selling distinct geographic distribution rights so that they receive more money for their work. Parcelling out rights into specific, targeted groups is one of the basic business lessons for a content creator. Amazon can't sell a certain work outside a certain area because the publisher won't let them, the publisher won't do that because the author has only given them limited rights.
Stop blaming publishers for georestrictions! Authors do this because they make more money selling the book several times over than they would selling it only once, no matter how much a small number of readers may fume.
I've no idea what you think this has got to do with socialism, and I don't think you do either. This is about people making a buck, and increasing the amount of income they receive from a work. Please show me the section in
Das Kapital that deals with maximising your return from an investment.