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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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I know that's the current line, but it doesn't explain why us anglophones living just across the Channel in France can't buy anything these days from UK e-booksellers.
I've got no objection to paying French VAT (which just dropped to 7% from 19.6%), but none of the UK booksellers will sell to me (including Amazon.co.uk, which does have the software to charge the appropriate VAT, since they do so on all my other Amazon purchases).