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Originally Posted by darryl
However, an author should not have the right to limit publication only to certain geographic areas. And yes, an author may have the right to withdraw a work from sale completely. But not only from a particular region or for that matter only from a particular person or group.
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The biggest problem I have with the current geo-restrictions is that they only are for electronic books. As Harry pointed out, I can buy a book from anywhere in the world, as long as they ship it to my country. And if it's in paper. But I cannot buy that exact same book, from the exact same publisher in another format: bits. Even though there is not one publisher in my own country that publishes it (the only ones are in Britain and there I am not allowed to buy books either, never mind that one economic market thing of the EU). That's why I'm lying on my Amazon account.
I have (and will be) downloaded books from the dark side (mostly backlogged books though). But I've been replacing them too, once I found out where I could legally buy them.