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Originally Posted by HarryT
You're entirely missing the point. It's not that publishers "want" to impose regional restrictions, but that the contracts which they have already signed with authors impose regional restrictions on them. It's not the publisher's "fault".
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Respectfully Harry, I disagree - only because those contracts are generally put forward BY the publishers themselves.
While some of the contracts have certainly been in place for a while, this has been such an obvious issue in music and video for so long, that I consider it short-sighted of them to have not looked into addressing these concerns years ago in all new contracts.
While e-book readers have been gaining in popularity only in the last few years, recorded media and the issues around its distribution have been obvious for several decades now (at least as far back as the creation of video tapes if not longer).