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Originally Posted by HarryT
Are you sure that's the case? Bookstores in the UK import and sell US books all the time!
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The restrictions are at the distributor level, not retail sales. Bookstores can sell to anyone; they can't import wholesale without paying whatever fees are arranged for international sales.
The problem is that the ebook stores are being treated like distributors, and customers are being treated like stores, not end-users--and location is based on some nebulous unchangeable condition based on bank contracts, rather than *anything's* physical reality. (A person who lives in the UK and visits the US for a week, can't buy Amazon's only-in-US kindlebooks during that week.)
I have no problems with people getting around geo-restrictions. It's legal to buy from any ebookstore. It's legal for the store to sell to anyone. It may be a breach of contract between the store and publisher for the store to sell to you, but it's the store's problem to figure that out.