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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
In most cases, it's not that the author is exercising moral rights to limit distribution, it's because the big multinational publishers have a screwy system where a publisher in the author's home country buys the rights for that region, and then it's hit or miss as to whether publishers in any other region end up buying it. In general, the publishers like to repackage the book for their region, which is why there's often a different cover for the same book in the US, UK, and Australia. The cost of repackaging the book is probably why some books are only released in one region, the publishers in the other regions decide that it probably won't sell enough to make a profit on the repackaging and author payments.
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Understood. And with physical books, there is no problem with an individual buying a copy overseas. In the case of ebooks they seek to prevent this. And "repackaging" an ebook is unnecessary, and the costs minimal in any event.
Once again, there seems to be nothing immoral or unethical in circumventing any geographical restrictions.