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Well, I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one suffering in silence.
It seems to me that the easiest way to eliminate geo-restrictrions is to define the point of sale for an ebook as the location of the seller (as occurs for physical books), but I believe that this approach has been dis-allowed by US courts ...? Has it been tested in courts in other countries?
What I have been thinking about (but thus far, too disorganised to do) is to create a general letter, and everytime I cannot purchase a book that I want, emailing that letter to the relevant publisher, bookseller and author. If we could get everyone who is affected doing this it might start raising some attention (or perhaps not), but I'm hoping that if the authors started realising how much money they were losing because of their publishers, they might start pushing from that side as well.
The letter would read something like:
"Dear xxx,
Recently I wanted to purchase a copy of your e-book xxxx from ..... Unfortunately, that bookshop will not sell me a copy of your book because I live in [insert location]. There are currently no bookshops in [country] that sell your e-book. I will not buy new books in paper copy, and therefore, you have lost a sale. I purchase many books each year, and although I would like to, your books will not be ones that I purchase until this issue is resolved.
Best wishes
xxxx"
Am I just being hopelessly idealistic???
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