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Old 01-24-2010, 03:48 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by Pardoz View Post
I've never seen a contract between an author and a retailer (or even a wholesaler) that would prevent retail sales of books based on geographical location. Contracts between authors and publishers, yes. It's a fairly fine hair, granted - the retailer has to get stock somewhere, and it's going to be tricky if nobody has rights to publish the book in that country - but there's nothing actually preventing the retailer from making the sale, AFAIK.
The reason that independent US ebook stores started working harder on enforcing geographic restrictions is that at least one big publisher pulled all their ebooks from the stores until they got their act together. So it is the publishers who are in the driving seat, and they mostly like the status quo.
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