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Originally Posted by HarryT
The publisher generally has no say in that, so it's not really a consideration. If it's not available to you, then you can't buy it, so the price is irrelevant.
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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
Unless you are HidingYourAss (or changing your address) etc.
An America Online thing I tried not so long ago gave you a USA IP address too, come to think of it. 
But yeah, if not selling it to you, the only price you can pay in general is 0.00 and grab it elsewhere. |
Yep. Circumventing stupid restrictions is the only way to be able to purchase such ebooks.
What a stupid system they have presently.
Presenting such and such a book by Bill Blogs. Priced fixed at $14.99, 'cause that is the price of the hardcover. Incidently you can buy the hardcover (we desperately want you to do that) but you cannot have the ebook 'cause you live in Lower Denied Access.
Well bugger you Mr Publisherthal, VPN out, mask that evil and revealing IP and buy it anyway (just like HarryT says he does too) and at least the author gets his couple of coins. I might then have to format shift it though. Oh no!! I am a pirate now because I removed the DRM...Woe is me...
On the way around doing that, you notice a heap of authors self publishing that have good reviews who sell their ebooks for half the price of "such and such a book"
Or the
easier way is to simply take a Google to the nearest under the counter ebook repository and grab it there, gratis.
Most people pick the later. The anachronistic system with its inbuilt price fixing, hardcover parity selling, discriminative restrictions and good old price gouging encourages casual piracy. But the luddites at the helms cannot or simply refuse to see that.