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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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.
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For VAT point of sale to a non-business customer is where the supplier is. Since ebooks fall under the definition of an electronic service rather than goods.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/managing/...s/services.htm
I've not heard anything about that being changed, have you got a link to it?
I think geo-restrictions are more down to authors having contracts that say the books can be sold in region X and Y with one publisher and in Z with another. So when they re-negotiate ebook sales, different publishers can only get rights to certain regions as other publishers already have (whether they use them or not) rights to the rest.