I understand the Whispernet fee, and in that case I wouldn't care to pay for that (even if I downloaded the book by Wi-Fi, I've never used the 3G feature of my Kindle and now I'm regretting the extra 50$ payed but, oh, well). But fror the other issues, it's really stupid.
Internet is not a country. You can't put boundaries or frontiers to internet based on physical conutries, that's just retarded. I don't care about Penguin ed. not publishing paperbooks out of the US, heck, I don't even know if I'll ever go to the US. But not letting me buy a book I CAN buy (meaning that, fuck, I'm at the screen, I have the credit card, I only need to push the OK button), is as stupid and senseless as not letting me buy a Penguin book from the shop because in my passport says I'm Spanish.
Attitudes like that are the ones that drag market progress down, trying to punish and avoiding ANYTHING related to online downloads labelling them as "piracy" when they should work to outsmart them, make purchases more appealing to the possible customer than downloading them by internet.
A simple example are actually eBooks (save the country thing). I download "hacked" books sometimes (basically the ones that I own already as paperbooks), but the truth is that, when you own a Kindle, going to the Amazon store and buying books from them is so infinitely more comfortable, easy and fast that it's worth every $ you'd save looking for the hacked book (because you gotta look for it, first, that will take even weeks if you're looking for a "rare" book. Then you gotta download it and in most of the cases you'll find the surprise! The book is so crap formatted that you gotta spend more time fixing it with eBook editors).
But that's not the same with other digital content, unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by chamekke
The temptation to scan/OCR my existing hard copies is immense....
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Well, you paid for it already. I wouldn't even feel "temptation", I'd just do, but that's a problem between you and your morals to solve...
Last thing... Does Amazon do something serious when they catch you switching addresses to buy books from other countries? I did it once to buy the Dune one, but I still gotta buy two more and I'm a bit afraid, lol. If nothing serious happens then I'll do again, though.