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Originally Posted by HarleyB
Just to repeat when I downloaded the darknet versions legal ebooks were NOT AVAILABLE in Australia. I think that many of you really don't understand how often others are frustrated by geographic restrictions.
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I have to admit I've recently had my eyes opened on this one.
I'd read the threads about geographic restrictions and have a passing thought that it must be frustrating.
I was recently given a gift certificate to DirectEbooks, which is based in Ireland (absolutely great customer service, by the way). But it's taken me almost two months to find enough books to spend that gift certificate, because most of the books
I was interested in were not allowed to be sold to residents of the US.
I think the most frustrating thing was that you can't limit the search criteria to those books you
can buy (which I've read as a complaint for Sony's offerings as well).
It seems to me that if sites can't automatically limit what you view based on IP (which I can think of reasons to avoid - like travelling), they should give you an option to limit your searches to those you actually have the ability to purchase!