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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Oh, right, my bad, i forgot canada.
US and canada goes mostly together as far as geographic restrictions go.
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The major problems are contractual/rights based, and I do have access to fewer books than a US resident. The most silly example is that WWW:Wake by Robert Sawyer (his latest paperback) is not available to me even though he is a Canadian and lives less than 20 km from where I am sitting right now.
Of course, Canada is an easier market to target for US-based operations (same language, same time zones, etc), but Apple is rolling out to more countries and Amazon has a large number. Kobo and B&N are probably sticking closer to home, though.
I think it's safe to say that for big book stores that don't go the Adobe Digital Editions route, an iPad isn't going to be any worse than a standalone reader in terms of content availability and likely will be better, regardless of where you are worldwide - at least in terms of countries where the iPad is actually for sale.