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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
I agree. Competing formats, stupid DRM policies, and geographical restrictions create unnecessary complications to buying and reading e-books. Hopefully the situation will improve in the next few years.
Basically, you have to choose between Amazon and other stores. I hate Amazon for forcing us to make that choice, but I have to admit that for English language books, they have an incredible selection, and their website, search engine, and reader feedback functionalities are unequalled. However, I do not not how many of the huge number of books offered at Amazon.com are actually available for European buyers.
On the other hand, European publishers and resellers are now very quickly building up their e-book inventories. I heard that Danish language e-books are incredibly expensive, so maybe it's not really a plus for you. But keep an eye on the British booksellers (except amazon.co.uk), they have a lot of books available to the rest of Europe. In ePub format of course. With Adobe DRM, yuck.
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I have looked at Waterstones, and, unfortunately, their selection of available titles is MUCH smaller than Amazon.
I have (potential) ways of getting around the problem of books being offered to European buyers. I am American and I have family living there. I could buy a Kindle there, with an American credit card, and in theory download whatever I like...unless they are going to limit IP addresses which means I would need to do it over a proxy server.
We run into problems like this all the time. I have an iphone and many applications are impossible to get because of similar restrictions. There are of course ways around this (I plan on getting the itunes gift card when in the states that allows purchase of these aps) but when is the world truly going to 'go global'? Those of us already living globally are tired of the roadblocks!