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Old 10-26-2008, 03:17 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by Lemurion View Post
It doesn't only matter in the UK. Most US publishers buy first North American rights only. That means that Sony cannot set up a "storefront" in either Sweden or Italy and sell those books. They do not have the rights to do so. Individual bookstores in those countries may buy books from the US for resale, but the publishers of those books do not sell to distributors that cover those territories.
Why should they set up a storefront in Sweden to sell English language books when you can just buy them from UK or US like you do with Amazon?
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