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Originally Posted by Critteranne
I wish the publishers and e-book publishers would get their acts together. Still, it must be a legal nightmare. Even public domain texts aren't in the public domain in all countries.
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It seems especially silly to have the geo-restriction in this case, since B&N are the publisher as well as distributor.
Mind you, though all the original authors in this promotion are very dead and the B&N Classics series has been going on for years, possibly they never thought they'd be selling ebook versions and thus failed to contract for worldwide electronic rights from the people supplying the commentaries and such.
(Which, BTW, are well done and very informative in the ones I've sampled, for anyone wondering if they're really added-value).