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Originally Posted by Olympus
... in the past years I had no problems with any regions for buying books - suddenly I am - so I conclude regions are a "mistake" from the recent manufactured contracts ...
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You have made an erroneous conclusion. Book contracts have almost always been for particular regions. Often the regions are US/Canada and UK/rest of the world for English language books.
What has changed recently is that UK publishers noticed that US publishers were selling ebooks in the UK, where the UK publishers had exclusive ebook rights. So there were threats of lawsuits, resulting in the US publishers threatening to pull their ebooks from any resellers that didn't enforce the regional rights that the US publishers had.
The problem isn't new contracts. The problem is that there
haven't been new contracts to take into account the real situation for ebooks.