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Originally Posted by blackcat
It does sound as though they are reacting a bit OTT to the international buyers imo, surely in this globalised world we live in we should all be able to buy the same things
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It'd be nice and for the most part there really weren't geo restrictions until a few years ago when publishers in the UK and elsewhere decided to start really paying attention to ebooks. The stores have little choice though. When geo restrictions really started being enforced a few publishers actually pulled all their books from stores until the stores had put in place methods of controlling where you could buy from.
At this point publishers expect digital rights when buying paper rights and since authors/agents sell them regionally it'll be tough to get rid of restrictions until/unless that changes in some way. One way would be if publishers would all be OK with non-exclusive worldwide rights (like Baen does), but AFAIK that hasn't been tried, or if it has it hasn't flown, with any of the big pubs.