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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I've noticed that lots of MR readers throw a fit when a publisher does something they don't think fits the contract such as proclaim they hold ebook rights when it wasn't specified in the contract -- but then turn right around and blast publishers for actually abiding by the contracts, by not violating the stipulations to sell outside their region. Go figure....
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It's fair to say that they are being reasonable in abiding by their contracts, but I think that there is a reasonable frustration in the fact that I can buy a pbook from Amazon.com and import it easily, but not an ebook. I don't mind paying the VAT. The problem is the different definition of the point of sale for p- and e-books.
The key fact that the industry hasn't got its head around is that geography doesn't map well to the internet - it's web is world-wide, not local. So a deal to publish an e-book in, say, the UK only doesn't make a lot of sense.
In the meantime, they could at least allow a sale to happen local to the vendor which is then shipped, with duty.