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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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It's not publishers who geo-restrict - it's authors. An author can, generally speaking, get more money by signing a separate deal with a US and a UK publisher, for example, than by assigning the rights for both regions to a single publisher.