Geo-restrictions - Geographic Restrictions: Authors and publishers have contractual obligations which mean that books are handled by different sales outlets for different countries... far more strictly enforced for eBooks as opposed to paper...The easy to way to see if you can get something is the simple one, try it...
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Originally Posted by Jewitch
I tried to buy some ebooks by a favorite author from Amazon.uk. The ebooks were available from US sources, but were cheaper from Amazon.uk (perhaps because the author was British?). I got spanked (but politely) for trying & told to go to Amazon.com. I've been looking at a couple of ebooks difficult to find in the US & was considering buying from Foyles. Do you think I'll run into the same problems you've encountered at W.H. Smith & Waterstones?
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