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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's a legal technicality. When you buy a print book, the "point of sale" is deemed to be the bookstore. When you buy an eBook, the point of sale is the customer's PC. Hence, if the customer is in a country for which the US publisher does not have distribution rights, they can buy the print book (because that's legally being sold "in the USA"), but they can't buy the eBook.
Yes, it's stupid, but you did ask, and that is the reason.
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Yes, very stupid. But the most astounding thing is that it is not as if the government made up these silly laws which constrain the publishers from making money (in much the same way that environmental regulations constrain industry from making even more money). It is the publishers THEMSELVES that make up this absurd "law". I do not see how they gain from this self-restraint in selling ebooks vs. print.