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Originally Posted by abookreader
I think these geographic restrictions are downright anti-consumer and I have no problem with somebody going to a different country to buy their books.
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I think the problem has more to do with VAT than anything else. It's not Amazon, or authors, or publishers who are throwing this curve at you: it's your friendly Inland Revenue Service that taxes e-books as it would tax any consumer item. (The UK for example applies VAT to ebooks but not to paper books; go figure.)