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Originally Posted by erictoma
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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You are confusing formats,E-Pub and Mobi, with geo restrictions. The format is how the book is read by your reader. Nook uses E Pub, Kindle uses Mobi. This has nothing to do with what books are sold in a country only what can be read on an e-reader.
Geo restrictions prevent people from buying books outside of their country. Geo restrictions are in effect because different publishers control the distribution rights in different countries. This has nothing to do with the distributors, Amazon and B&N, but contracts signed by the Publisher and the Author.
The books that are not available in different countries are not available because the Publisher with the rights to the book has chosen not to release the book in that country. A popular book, such as The Girl Who Played With the Dragon Tattoo, was available all over Europe before it was available in the US. Why? Not because Amazon and B&N and Borders did not want to sell it in the US but because the book had a different publisher throughout Europe then it did in the US. The European Publishers chose to release the book at a certain time and the US Publishers chose to release the book at a different time. Distributors in the US would have been violating contracts had they sold the book in the US before the contract date.
So a book that is not available in Canada through Amazon due to geo restrictions will not be available through B&N.