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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Geo-restrictions is not a freedom to read issue. I know why it's there and it makes sense. But the problem comes when a book you want to read is not available as an eBook in your country but is available in a different country.
Take (for example) the Dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler. Not all of the eBooks are available in the US. . . .
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Since most Clive Cussler books seem to come in large print paper editions, I agree concerning your example.
There are two groups of people who can't read what they want due to national boundary restrictions.
One group is those who need large print. Here's an example of a book that I can't get in the US, as an eBook, and thus can't get in large print:
https://www.amazon.cn/The-Feng-Shui-...=Nury+Vittachi
Or maybe I can get it as an eBook, but I don't know how. It is fair to say that someone is trying to stop me. So I bought it as a regular paper book, which had smaller print than I like, but that I still found manageable. For someone else, in the US, who has a more serious need for large print, they would be unable to read this book.
We should keep in mind that the US is no longer the dominant country for either computer or mobile reading.
More than 330 million Chinese now read books via online platforms . . . . Some titles are freely available as eBooks in China, but not the US, as is the case with my first link in this thread. I think this should be considered a problem, just as the reverse (albeit usually for a different reason) is a problem.