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wintermute314 · 09-19-2010, 06:40 AM

What troubles me more is that some books are getting more georestricted than the were before on kindle. I do not know if this is related to the opening of the kindle UK store or not. Some examples that were available to non-US, non-UK buyers and that are no longer available for Europe are:
- The Hunger Games by Collins
- Cryptonomicon by Stephenson

This are no obscure titles. My guess is that the digital rights for Europe were turned over to the UK not taking into account that there are more than 300 million Europeans living outside the UK.

I sent a mail to amazon about this but got a stock answer explaining that books sometimes get removed, and that amazon strives to get any title available anywhere.

Does anyone notice similar removals from the international kindle store in the last weeks? Is there a pattern?

Thanks

Bart

09-19-2010, 06:40 AM	#20
wintermute314 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: kindle 3, kindle 2	What troubles me more is that some books are getting more georestricted than the were before on kindle. I do not know if this is related to the opening of the kindle UK store or not. Some examples that were available to non-US, non-UK buyers and that are no longer available for Europe are: - The Hunger Games by Collins - Cryptonomicon by Stephenson This are no obscure titles. My guess is that the digital rights for Europe were turned over to the UK not taking into account that there are more than 300 million Europeans living outside the UK. I sent a mail to amazon about this but got a stock answer explaining that books sometimes get removed, and that amazon strives to get any title available anywhere. Does anyone notice similar removals from the international kindle store in the last weeks? Is there a pattern? Thanks Bart