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Originally Posted by Xenophon
You are absolutely correct that the battle has been fought by music distributors. Not entirely clear that it has been lost, but that's not really relevant to my next point.
The key issue here is this: Many publishers do not hold world-wide distribution rights to the books they publish -- even for electronic publishing. This is exactly the source of the problem. The publisher can't (legally) sell outside their region. So their lawyers are telling them "Put a stop to out-of-region sales before we get sued for a zillion dollars!"  |
Why then do they not sue/pull their books from BD or Amazon.uk for selling to non-UK customers, or Amazon.com for selling outside US??
The above justification just does not hold water. The reason in this specific case (Hachette) is that US e-book vendors sell lower than the UK ones, so the UK ones complained.