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Originally Posted by BVLarson
As Brian was saying above, this really isn't Amazon's fault. They are contractually obligated to prevent book sales out of a given geographic area. This is all in the workings of contracts that are more or less antiquated concepts from the big six publishers. But they really can't fix it easily, as the contracts they wrote with the authors, often decades ago, restrict foreign rights. This was to protect the author in the old days from other people getting their books without paying a royalty. There was no concept of the modern ebook age at that point, especially if you fly overseas often as I used to do, a real pain.
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I was refused ebooks by Amazon that I could buy at Kobo. Kobo does have regional restrictions and refused the sale when I entered my Dutch address. But it did sell to my Bolivian address. I guess some USA publishers may have rights for all of the Americas (except, maybe, Canada). But then Amazon is just too restrictive.
Anyway, let us get rid of DRM and geographic restrictions. I still want to find out on which laws this is based. I think I am going to ask a publisher.