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Originally Posted by grimborg
I don't get it: B&N is going out of their way to prevent their ebooks being sold internationally. They clearly don't want us in their shop. We shouldn't be going out of our way to sneak in and give them our money: we should just buy our books elsewhere where we are welcome.
If this happened in a brick-and-mortar shop, it'd be outrageous, and we wouldn't be be discussing how to fake our best American accent and where to find the most American looking clothes so that they would not find out our real nationality and kick us out.
Just don't buy there. There's plenty of other shops.
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You cannot blame B&N for geo-restrictions. The publishers (and especially the agency 5 publishers) are forcing e-bookstores to implement strict geo-restrictions. It is the publishers that are to blame for geo-restrictions.
Recently the publishers have forced Waterstones and WH Smith in the UK to stop selling books outside the UK.
Also recently the publishers have complained that Amazon's geo-restrictions are too easy to circumvent.
I expect that short term the geo-restrictions problem will get even worse, with publishers forcing bookstores to close the available loopholes.