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Originally Posted by HarryT
Unfortunately those existing contracts - ill-fitting as they are to the world of e-books - do currently exist,
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No, it's actually new contracts. Which the publishers have deliberately negotiated in such a way as to effectively say "you can't sell to Europeans/Asians/Americans because we think we can herd those nationals into a separate shop where we can squeeze more money out of them". Mind you, they are not saying "you can't sell in Europe", (which in itself bears all the hallmarks of a cartel agreement, where dishonest merchants divide the market so as not to compete against each other). They are actually saying "you can't sell to Europeans". Which is outright discriminatory and illegal.