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Originally Posted by HansTWN
If publishers had only one price worldwide and US sellers could sell to anyone then in the end only US sellers would survive.
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No, the non-US sellers would be forced to compete with US sellers and become as efficient as Amazon US, bringing down prices and offering better service for the benefit of consumers worldwide.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
And an international trade war would break out over lost tax revenue and distribution of possibly censored books
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No trade wars will break out because they are not winnable. Governments will simply be forced to review the taxing policies that put the sellers in their country at a disadvantage. As for the "censored books", let the Chinese worry about that. I elected my government to run the police and public services, not to tell me which books I'm allowed to read.