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Originally Posted by Quexos
Well stopping a book from being available to some and only making it available to others is morally wrong and has no valid bases. It's discriminating to tell a person you cannot read this because you live in a certain area.
If you want your work to be in a specific type of paper and in a specific type of book for artistic reasons, that's all your right and it's probably a good thing to put some artistic value to the media but in today's global economy if you can get such a book somewhere, you can get it somewhere else too and wishing to limit the availability of such work to some people only is morally wrong, discriminating and in some cases elitist.
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You are looking at it all wrong. Nobody wishes NOT to sell you a book. Amazon and others from the US are contractually obligated not to sell to Europe. And your European governments want to collect those big VAT and other taxes. So, it is partially the European social services (financed by your high taxes) that prevents worldwide sales. And most of Europe has legal price fixing for books. It is that European governments and book sellers DON'T want you to buy in the US but locally at higher prices.
The American sellers would love to take your money. And, of course, there are easy way around regional restrictions.