I would assume that Amazon was able to successfully negotiate new deals with wireless carriers in some countries, while other carriers are sticking to whatever the previous deal was.
Not really a big deal, just a good break for some people.
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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Price loading of ebooks, geographical restrictions and DRM all encourage otherwise honest folks to become minor crooks. It's a shameful state of affairs.
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Uh huh. You might as well say that "speed limits encourage otherwise honest, albeit impatient, drivers to become minor crooks."
Oh, and in case you missed it, abolishing geo restrictions would basically require trampling over tens of thousands of existing contracts between publishers and authors -- hardly a precedent I expect anyone here would want to set. Plus, you'd have to get every nation and municipality to do a 180º turn from harmonizing sales taxes to "location of the buyer" towards "location of the seller," and that is not going to happen.