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What the publishers do not get is that given how easy it is to find pirated eBooks, not publishing is going to cause some piracy. Take my Clive Cussler example. I buy the first so many books available. Then I go to by the next book and it's unavailable. If I was unable to buy from the UK, I'd go looking elsewhere. Then I find out how easy it is to find the eBooks I'm looking for. So I think that was easy and free. So let's try again for this eBook. I find it. So why bother to pay when I can get for free?
I do think that if an eBook is not available in one country but is in another, then georestrictions should not matter. That way, the author gets paid, the publisher who published the eBook gets paid and the consumer has a legally purchased eBook.
I do think that the publishers have to take some responsibility for the eBook piracy.
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