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Originally Posted by HarryT
Absolutely right. It was, in fact, a British publisher (Hachette) who started the whole mess by threatening BoB with legal action for selling US editions of eBooks to which they had exclusive UK rights to British customers.
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And just to confuse things, the overall owner of Hachette is a French company. When you look at the number of number of prints they own in multiple countries, you'd think they could figure out how to sell e-books to people in the UK (and other countries) without cutting off customers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_Livre