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Originally Posted by pwalker8
People don't understand the archaic business models that led to geographical restrictions. That business model makes less and less sense given the easy that one can buy things world wide today.
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That's because you're looking at it from the POV of the customer, not the author. It makes a great deal of sense from the author's perspective. The majority of books don't pay more than their initial up-front royalty payment. By selling country-specific or regional rights to multiple publishers, the author receives multiple royalty payments, and hence makes more money. The business model is designed (absolutely rightly) to give the maximum benefit to the author, not to you, the customer.