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Old 11-30-2010, 05:06 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
You are going to have that problem with all of the e-readers. Geo Restrictions are not specific to one distributor. More likely then not you will find if a book is not available on Amazon it will not be available for B&N.

There are work arounds that are posted in topics in the Kindle forum and the Nook forum. Once you have a US address and some type of program to mask your IP address you should be able to buy from the US store easily enough.
The problem of Kindle is unique.
With Nook I could order by ebooks from Canada because it reads several formats.
But with Kindle I wouldn't find any alternative, I have to buy for Amazon or die.
So Kindle is not the right chose for a Canadian human reader.
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