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Originally Posted by GeoffC
Surely the US credit card is only needed to circumvent the drm'ed books with georestriction, there are ample books out there that don't suffer from this if one looks....I use a UK card and UK address no problem ...
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It depends on the vendor, but generally the geo-restrictions have little or nothing to do with it. And it doesn't seem to be linked particularly to the DRM either.
I can't buy books at the US Sony store using my US credit card, because I have a foreign billing address. However, if I buy with gift cards, there's no problem.
As someone else has mentioned, Kobo seems pretty unrestricted as far as what card you use and pretty unconcerned about your physical location.
I've got credit cards from the US, UK and France, and I generally use the "local" card for online purchases, just to keep the currencies straight and avoid exchange rate fees. It's only ever been US-based businesses that have refused to accept my US credit card - and that is based on the billing address, not on the origin of the credit card.