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Originally Posted by HarryT
Georestrictions are mostly the author's fault, not the publisher. If the publisher only has the legal right to sell the book is a particular region, they would be liable to being sued for breach of contract if they were to sell it elsewhere.
Blame the author for not granting the publisher world-wide rights.
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The problem stems from traditional, print publishing, where the publisher might have no foreign distribution. An author would be foolish to grant all foreign rights to a publisher with no distribution outside his native country!
That situation needn't apply to ebooks, but contracts are still catching up with the way things have always been done.