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Originally Posted by jamthecat
BTW, the publisher tells me "Nook" is not restricted to area or country, so you should be able to buy HTRASG online through them if you can get a Nook shipped to Australia (which might cost as much as the device, in shipping and duties)...but it'd be interesting to know if that's true or if they're just making an assumption.
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The Nook device may be available world-wide; that doesn't mean the ebooks on the B&N site are available to anyone who can buy a Nook. Geographic restrictions are often applied even for books where the publisher has world-wide publishing rights; it's too much hassle for the ebook store to set different permissions for individual titles, so all books by a given publisher, or a given line, are arranged with the same restrictions.
The ebook marketplace is plagued by weird contracts and tech problems and a blurry legal landscape, and companies that are so terrified of losing a few dollars somewhere that they'll chop off large portions of their potential customer base.