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Well, I travel from Spain to USA usually. Why do I have to buy a book to an English publisher that, perhaps, never will publish it or never will sell it to me? What happens then?
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Order the paperback, scan it, enjoy. Still a copyright infringement, but one most unlikely to be prosecuted. A lawsuit in Spain of an American publisher against a Spanish customer? Would be very interesting.
@ omk3: I'm doing some pb covers, and my contracts only allow the distribution of a printed version in German-speaking countries. If the publisher should ever consider a foreign-language edition in another country, he'd have to get my permission first or get a new cover.
He'd even need it if he wanted to do an eBook version in Germany. Greedy little me, but that's the limitations I put in my contracts.
So it's not the question if publisher will or won't offer an eBook in foreign countries - but the question if they have the rights to offer it outside their own country, as Mike L stated above.
About all newspapers for the Kindle are sold without photos for the Global Edition. Simple because the newspapers don't have the rights to publish these photos outside the U.S.
And, yep, sure, the EU is considered to be an open market, but there are other examples where this didn't/doesn't work as well. Re-imported new cars were quite an issue some years back when I wasn't allowed as a German to buy a car manufactured in Germany from a car dealer in the Netherlands and re-import it to Germany (as a private individual).