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Originally Posted by Pardoz
Of course they are, since the extant geo restrictions on e-books were invented by publishers, and within the last year. All they have to do is stop pretending that an e-book sale happens where the recipient is, rather than where the seller is - in other words accept the status quo situation with physical books - instead of persisting in this counter-productive fantasy that buying a book from Amazon is fundamentally different than buying a book from Amazon. Problem solved.
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Perhaps in Poland there is no respect for contracts, but in most of the Western world contracts are respected and publishers do not own worldwide rights. Publishers did not invent geo restrictions within the past year; geo restrictions have been part of publishing for decades. Authors preferred, and perhaps still do, to sell publishing rights to various publishers around the world so they can control their books and also get more money for selling of the rights.