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It does seem that many authors' contracts call for North American rights as one chunk, and then the Commonwealth rights exclude Canada. Then it will be up to the publishers and booksellers to enforce those contract exclusions. Harry Potter books were a fortuitous exception; the British author sold the Canadian rights separate from the US rights.
Compounding this confusion is the decision that physical books sales take place at the bookseller's office while ebook sales take place at the buyer's computer, so we can easily buy British pbooks, but not necessarily the same ebooks.
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