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Originally Posted by FF2
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.
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My understanding is that it's to do with where the sale occurred (which has a bearing on tax as well). If you're importing the pbook, the sale occurred at the store from which it was purchased. If you're buying an ebook, the point of sale is
your location, which the publisher may or may not own the rights to. It's even possible that a publisher can own rights to sell a pbook in your area, but not have the rights to sell you an ebook.
It's a very strange way in which the digital world has affected the physical world... geographical territories don't make sense like they used to when you take in account e-commerce.