Thread: B&N CFO "thrilled" about holiday sales
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Old 01-07-2011, 09:49 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
How do overseas Kindle owners purchase ebooks?

With some difficulty.

Publisher restrictions are geographic, and depend on whether the publisher has the right to sell a book in a particular territory. There's no reason the B&N site couldn't stock electronic titles salable overseas, and use geolocation on the IP address of the purchaser to determine if they can purchase a particular volume.
Dennis
Even Amazon isn't doing this except for indies.

Amazon has several country specific websites set up already. B&N doesnt. And the geo restrictions are more narrow than realized. A customer from Netherlands can't purchase from UK Amazon. Into how many parts do the publishers split the globe? And there are already many ereaders available globally. Do they need another one?
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