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I understand what you are saying re. geo restrictions and worldwide rights. There seems to be a basic failure to understand though, that ebooks are offered for sale on the WORLDWIDE web, and if it were not for the fact that the point of sale is deemed to be the consumer's PC, then ebooks could (presumably) be bought in the same un-restricted way that pbooks are. As things stand at the moment though, a geographically restricted ebook means a lost sale - I'm not going to buy the pbook instead.
I understand that publishers cannot easily address geo restrictions unilaterally, but I do think the industry needs to wake up, quickly, to the probability that they are alienating customers and encouraging the dark net by maintaining geo restrictions.
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