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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
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.
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Yes, Hachette pulled them because the UK sellers complained. However, the reason Hachette responded to the complaints in the way they did is because the UK sellers could point to the contracts Hachette had signed and say they were in breach of contract. Hachette gets paid either way (whether through UK subsidiary or US) so without the contractual hammer they would not have taken as extreme an action as pulling all their books from all US ebook sellers.
They pulled the books because they could have been sued.