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Originally Posted by HansTWN
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.
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So Region Lockouts on DVDs are because companies don't want to pay taxes? That doesn't exactly make sense. Sure the prices are higher because of the taxes, but if they work like sales taxes do in America then the goods aren't taxed until they're sold to the consumer. The only thing the seller feels, arguably, is reduced sales due to higher prices.
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The American sellers would love to take your money. And, of course, there are easy way around regional restrictions.
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From where I'm sitting, it looks more like they're trying to maintain their role as gatekeepers and censors instead of selling books. In the case of not releasing stuff over there, its probably so they can try to build up demand to a frenzy and then release at a higher price than over here. Doubly true if ACTA says what people are saying it does; imagine border guards confiscating smuggled copies of
Twilight that someone wanted to sell in a country where it hasn't been released yet?
Am I the only one who's read at least part of
Jane Government ?