"A publisher with, say, North American rights, has paid for those rights. If a publisher selling out of, say, India with India-only rights were to sell in the US, he'd essentially be selling something he didn't own."
Yet, I can travel and buy a book where the publisher has no rights to sell in my home country.
Why is it OK when I travel physically, and not via the Internet? The Industry is trying to force fit an archaic model. And in doing so, making customers angry and foregoing sales. It is STUPID.
If the industry still wants to partition the marketplace, then LANGUAGE is the most appropriate delineation. And even then, I think it is a mistake.
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