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Originally Posted by haertig
I've never understood the rationale behind geo restrictions. Either you (as the author or publisher) wants to sell your book, or you don't. Geo restrictions appear to be aimed at supporting the don't half of that. But for the life of me, I can't figure out why anyone would desire it. I guess it's OK to sell the other 40 books in the series in the US, but just not this particular one. Makes perfect sense (to an idiot).
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Historical reasons and contracts. Basically, historically one might not want to ship a bunch of books over seas, so you might have one publishing company in England and one publishing company in the US. One publishing company had all the contact of various bookstores in the US, while a different one had it in England. It still makes a certain amount of sense for paper books. Not every publishing company is set up to service every country. Doesn't make as much sense for ebooks though.