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Originally Posted by tompe
I do not think it is North America and Europe. I think it is North America and UK. In Sweden there is no problem buying from US Amazon or UK Amazon. And bookshops by books both from UK and US so they can sell both editions.
So if ebooks works as books it would be no problem for the Sony Bookstore to sell English books to Sweden. It would probably be a problem selling them to UK.
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No it's not North America and UK: it's each rights territory. The rights determine where you can sell the book
from not who you can sell it
to. Amazon US can sell any book that it has US rights to to anyone in any country they ship to. Amazon UK can sell any book that it has UK right to to any one in any country they ship to. Britons can buy from Amazon US, and Americans can buy from Amazon UK.
The catch is that if the rights have been sold to different publishers in the UK and US you cannot buy the UK edition
from Amazon US and you cannot buy the US edition
from Amazon UK.
When Sony starts selling readers in any given country they are now on the "from" not the "to" side of the equation in that country, so the store (whether their own or their partners') can only sell books they have the rights to in that territory.
Any purchase from a UK reader account is considered to be made "from" the UK, so UK rights apply. This is true regardless of the physical location of the device.