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Old 08-27-2017, 11:38 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
Geo-restrictions is largely an artifact of two things. First, the old business model from when publishing was not world wide, but local. Second, the issue of individual laws. Many online stores are US only because they simply don't want to deal with all the various laws and such in the various countries.
A third element propping up Geo-restrictions is authors getting more by parceling out publication rights compared to selling world wide rights to a single publisher.

The reading public are supposed to accept that the very nature of e-books makes lending impractical. If that is true, the very nature of e-books makes geo-restrictions impractical.
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