Thread: Poll on obstacles to ebook buying
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Old 02-12-2010, 03:51 AM   #77
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Originally Posted by alvico View Post
I don't think that's what Pardoz meant. Anyone anywhere in the world can buy any published paper book (irrespective of rights) from Amazon in the US. The point is sale is deemed to be in the US. So why is an ebook different?
You've grasped my point exactly. An e-book is different for one reason and one reason only: because its publisher has decided it is and cooked up some excuses in an effort to justify doing so.

I can understand the reason for it easily enough - shipping paper around the world is sufficiently expensive and awkward that the numbers who will do so are limited: publishers don't have to worry about loss of control or risk competition. Shifting electrons, on the other hand, makes buying from a retailer on the other side of the world no different, for the consumer, than buying from one down the street.
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