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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
If an e-book is available in the US and not available in the Netherlands that is because the US Publisher has chosen to make it available and the Netherlands Publisher has chosen not to.
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I'd assume that more likely than not there
is no "Netherlands Publisher" for that book and never will be, because outside English-speaking countries, the market for English language books (print or ebooks) is not big enough for any local publisher to buy the rights to distribute the
English versions. (There may or may not be a publisher interested in translation rights, but that's irrelevant here.)
It's far more likely that the US (or UK) publisher has either not wanted to buy international rights (for distribution outside the major English-language markets, as the major English-language markets are indeed more likely to have separate publishers for the same book) or the author has wanted too much money for them or it never occurred to anyone.
Or, which is also likely and does happen, the US / UK publisher
has the international rights but just can't be bothered to deal with the distribution, probably figuring it's more hassle than the handful of potential buyers scattered here or there around the globe would be worth. (I am quite sure this is the case because I've written to authors whose ebooks are available in the US but not internationally, and at least in one case, the author and her agent both emailed me back and said that as far as they know, their US publisher has the rights, so there shouldn't be any issues, and promised to prod the publisher. That was a year ago and ebooks for me haven't happened yet.)