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Originally Posted by T3_reader
I am pretty sure that I can order printed books from Amazon for which the ebook versions are now no longer available to me.
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Yes. This is because the paper book is deemed purchased from the shipping location, but the ebook is deemed purchased from your PC. I already told you it was crazy.
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Originally Posted by T3_reader
I actually cannot imagine an author asking a publisher to please not sell his work in Europe or some other region.
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It is routine for an author to separately sell the US and UK rights to the same book to different publishers. This maximizes the authors profits for paper books. It makes less sense for ebooks, but the same geographical restriction language is used for them too.