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Originally Posted by Bittybye
I honestly don't understand why publishers geo restrict. It just pushes people (who would ordinarily pay for the boo) to the darknet. Could anyone explain why they do this?
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Publishers don't want to pay authors for exclusive world-wide ebook rights when they're only buying exclusive regional print rights and/or authors&agents aren't willing to sell non-exclusive world-wide ebook rights together with exclusive regional print rights.
The other reason for regional restrictions are international agreements that point of sale is the customer's billing address, not the retailer's offices.