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Originally Posted by sabredog
I will let him know that. 
Shame the publishing companies still INCLUDE geographic restrictions within their contract documents which are still being offered to authors and their agents. |
I am just grabbing yours to quote but could have latched on to a few.
I am still at a loss to understand the geo-restrictions issue. As I understand it people can purchase a real printed book and have it shipped to another country and that does not violate contract/law/whatever. Geo-restrictions apparently do not apply to Amazon selling the printed book to someone overseas.
But now turn that same book into electrons and geo-restrictions come into play. That same person could order the pbook today and have the order processed and eventually shipped. But if that same person was the companion EBOOK, no-can-do.
So somewhere besides the contract that the author/agent/publisher signed is some law or legal restriction that makes ebooks different - the sale supposedly takes place at the purchaser's location. Pbook is the vendor. That does not seem to be something the author necessarily signed onto or is based on more obscure law and the intial contracting provisions. Someone somewhere defined how the transaction is viewed and that probably was not the author.