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Originally Posted by wallcraft
This seems to be almost entirely a publishing industry concern, since the author gets paid no mater where the ebook is purchased.
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It is not actually that simple. Because of differences in copyright law, there are works that are in the public domain in some countries, but not in others. So, the author's payment can depend on where you purchase (admittedly, many of these cases are fairly old, so it may be more accurate in most cases to say that payments to the author's family may depend on where you purchase). Also, an author can have very different contracts in various countries with different publishers, so how much the author gets paid can vary widely.
An author posted here about this at some point in the past, but I cannot find the post at the moment.
Jack