[dudul]

And not all books are about spreading information and/or knowledge. We're not only talking about academic books here, there are also fictions. What does the latest Stephen King have to do with freedom of knowledge? I understand what you are talking about and as an author myself I do agree as per some of my comments under this thread, but let's not pretend all the books made available for free are about "knowledge".

[dmitriid]

Who are you to say what's knowledge and what's not?

Why can't I, a speaker in language X, buy books in that language outside of the country where this language is spoken on the same platform where it's sold.

See e.g. availability of, say, Japanese or Russian books on Apple Books in Europe, US, Russia and Japan.