Steve Pendergrast writes,
over on TeleRead,
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This has nothing to do with the B&N acquisition, it has been in the works for months. This is being enforced at the aggregator level. All retailers are theoretically doing this now. If not, they may find themselves cut off from their source of ebooks soon.
The publishers are not to blame here, the rights are carved up geographically and if the publishers in the USA don’t enforce the restriction they are potentially infringing contracts of publishers in other countries.
This does not affect any multiformat titles. It affects about 1/3 of the encrypted titles.
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