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Originally Posted by walt526
... As for eBook restrictions, that's a result of how the global publishing industry is organized and is completely outside the control of enTourage (or even a company as large as Amazon, for that matter). It's an artifact of what made sense for the publishing industry prior to the emergence of ebooks, but since most publishing is still controlled by a handful of major publishers with individual interests that are not necessarily aligned with consolidation, it's unlikely to change in the immediate future.
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This is something that worries me much more. It is nothing more but William Gibson's future - we're ruled by corporations and can't stand against them. I can only hope that there is a foreseeable solution to this matter, namely, most ebooks on the market will finally be tagged 'worldwide' rather than 'US & Canada.' And probably the illigal way, buying ebooks using false US address, "rigged" PayPal accounts, or simply (just as so many people do with electronics) have a friend buy it for you in the USA and send it to Europe.