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Originally Posted by patrickt
The problem isn't Kindle or Amazon. It's the unjust laws protecting publishers. Books can only be sold in the U.S. by publishing companies in the U.S. A book that sells in five developed countries will have five different publishers who may be related.
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This is totally incorrect. A book can be sold in whatever regions the contract between the author and the publisher says it can be sold in. The publisher may have world-wide publishing rights or it may have rights that are restricted to one or more specific countries. The publisher may have exclusive rights, or the author may be free to sell the book through other channels, too. These are not "unjust laws", but simply contractual obligations.