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Originally Posted by K-Thom
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For tangible objects it does make sense to licence them to a certain region i.e. legal system. Imagine a U.S. based publisher who would like to distribute his books to all English speaking countries. He would need branches in each countries, distributors, lawyers, accountants, etc. etc.
It's much easier and cheaper to offer licences to interested associated publishers in other countries.
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I don't claim that one publisher should necessarily set up worldwide distribution channels for tangible objects of course. But why refuse to send these objects worldwide by mail/courier, especially if they are not available in the region of the buyer any other way? (see my waterstones and sony example in the original post)