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Originally Posted by datcha
Now, I thought Europe has a unified market ?!
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It has a free market, but that's not quite the same.
For physical goods, you could choose to buy from Amazon UK, since for physical goods the point of sale in the location of the retailer.
But for ebooks, the point of sale is deemed to be the location of the purchaser, so someone only licensed to sell an ebook in the UK can only sell to people in the UK, not to anyone in the rest of the EU.
It's quite often the case that the publisher with UK rights will be different to the publisher with non-UK EU rights.