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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I never understood why some books would not be available at certain geographical locations... Don't we live in a world-wide economy?
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I think (and I'm not entirely clued up on this) there are different rights sold to different territories. So you might see a printing of a book in the US and UK, but then, and probably because of markets, the same text won't be available in Africa or Australia (except on the gray market). With digital this barrier is taken down, at least it can be if you use Creative Commons licensing.