Thread: Restrictions on Books Sales
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Old 09-19-2010, 08:11 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by ronw View Post
I am getting thoroughly annoyed at International Restrictions on eBook Sales.
Until recently there was some sanity for us in New Zealand that we could use W.H. Smith in UK They would list all their books and state where they could be sold to. Many of the books I wanted were available to be sold in Australia/New Zealand and you could see this on web site before you tried to purchase.
N ow I have just received an email from Smith's saying we can no longer sell our books outside of UK. They offered some weak excuse saying that it was because of vat etc but that seems silly as it should not apply to books especially if they are being sent overseas.
We now have almost no avenues here that we can purchase eBooks from.
An absolute stupid situation that makes buying a Reader pointless
At the moment to circumvent the geo-restrictions of the new WH Smith store you only need to use an UK address as account address and as credit card billing address.
The billing addres is not verified at your credit card company, and there is no IP-address check.
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