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Originally Posted by pholy
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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Finally someones talking! Your probably right. It just seems to me that if I can buy a paper book from somewhere I should be able to buy an ebook from there. This shows that I can get a physical thing that has to be shipped around the world but I can't get something that could be shipped to me in less than ten seconds! And really why do they bother restricting the area? Do they really think that if we could buy ebooks from the UK we all would, and that the north American distributors would go out of business?