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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.
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My very first ebook purchase was a book from B&N, and since I live in Denmark, I had to fake my address to that of the hotel in the US I stayed at.
Then, of course, I had to break the DRM in order to be able to read it in my Sony reader, but that's another story.