All excellent disucssion of copyrights, but I would like to add business practices to the mix. Let's compare Kobo to Amazon as they two companies have destinctly different approaches to selling of electronic book. kobo has group of servers that does all of the sales of books to anyone anywere while amazon has some servers in the US that sell to american customers and servers in the UK that sell to brittish customers and other servers that sell to a specific country. Therefore, I believe, that Amazon is more likely to run into copyright problems then Kobo is becuase of how the company has decided to regionalize their sales servers. I have yet to hear from anyone that Kobo refused to sell them the book of these choice. Not real sure how Kobo has managed to get around copyright laws but it appears that they have managed the task.
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