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Originally Posted by ereaderwanabe
So, I am nolonger an "ereader wannabe!" I bought a nook. So far I love it and I wanted to let you know of a possible way to purchase books from specifically Barnes and Noble when you are from Canada.
So, I had a b&n account, but was unable to purchase any ebooks The prices are b&N aren't bad and there is far more selection than Kobo, so I really wanted this to work! I was getting the same line many of you have mentioned about in your posts. You get to the check out and then you get the message that the ebook "[only ships to US addresses]."
Though I live in Canada, my family owns a vacation condo in Florida. So I tried adding the address to our family home in Florida on to the b&n account - but still using my Canadian credit card - and it was not letting me purchase anything because the billing address of the card did not match the American address that I was using as a residence in my b&n account.
I found out through a friend that you can have more than one mailing address associated with a credit card. So, I called the customer service number of my credit card, explained the fact that I have a second residence, in the US, that I would like linked to my credit card for online purchases in the US. It was no problem at all. They edited my associated billing addresses and in 15 minutes, when I tried purchasing my ebook, WITH THE SAME CANADIAN CREDIT CARD (but now the card was linked to my American address), the transaction went through.
When I originally called b&n about the inability for Canadians to purchase from B&N they said that the restriction comes down an issue of money i.e. as an example, if a Canadian purchases an ebook from B&N, right now Penguin Publishers Canada and Penguin Publishers U.S. are fighting over who gets the royalties of that kind of a sale.
For now I say, go figure it out amongst yourselves! I don't feel like I am being dishonest. The condo is a legitimate address of a property I occasionally reside in.
Hopefully this is a way for more people to have access to books they want to read that cannot be found at their regional ebook store.
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The billing address is not verified with the credit card company. You can just put in any USA address to get access to all the books.
Adding the address as a real billing address to your credit card is not neccessary.
This works for almost every USA e-book store.