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Originally Posted by SpirosGyrosAU
Hello,
I've just purchased a Kindle3 WIFI edition in Australia and I'm extremely annoyed with the AU Kindle Store and what is provides book readers.
The titles I want to purchase aren't on the AU Kindle Store but they reside on either the UK or the US Kindle Store.
If I wanted a book traditionally, I would purchase it through Amazon and it would get delivered to me from wherever the book was printed, and I would gladly pay the additional fee to have it transported to me so I could read it
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If you don't mind jumping through some hoops it is possible to buy books from US (or elsewhere) book stores using certain tricks. You may need to acquire a US credit card (or prepaid credit card, which you may be able to source online), and you will need to remove DRM in most cases.
I have successfully bought a couple of books not available on the Australian Kindle store via the Sony store and somewhere else I can't remember...Books on Board I think...by providing a US payment method and/or address.
It's depressing to think that in 2010 there are still arbitrary restrictions on such things. I understand why it happens (rights, etc.), but I don't understand why it hasn't been fixed yet. I suppose there isn't the financial incentive to organise the contracts, etc. to allow selling overseas. Can't they just let authors sell directly to anybody in a country not covered by their contracts?
It is absurd that I can get a paper book delivered across the oceans (using polluting fuels and taking days of time), yet I can't buy a digital copy of that same book.