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Originally Posted by Quexos
While they're at it, if they might force the publishers to remove the geo-restrictions
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The only way to remove all geo-restrictions would be to define the point of sale as the seller's location, not the customers. That's not going to happen.
Indeed, in the EU it looks like electronic sales are going to move even more towards being classed as at the customer's location, in terms of the VAT paid.
The likely solution to geo-restrictions is for publishing contracts to include world-wide ebook rights. And that's a slow case-by-case solution that will take a long time to come into effect.