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monkeygirl351 · 01-26-2012, 01:43 AM

Hi all,
I have started a new series by a British author. I have the first 2 books. Thayer are the historical fiction books based on robin hood by angus Donald. Anyways, I was going to amazon and figured I buy the third book as I saw it there a few months ago when I bought the other books. Well the third one now says I can't purchase it due to my location (US). I even went to the amazon.uk and couldn't buy it. This is so frustrating, now I know the pain that those outside the US deal with. I emailed the author and his publisher to see why the book was revoked and when it will be back. Wish I knew how to get around the restrictions as I crack drm off all my books anyways. Such a headache. I think I saw on his blog that the paper book is being released later this year, so I am hoping the same will happen with the kindle version. And publishers wonder why people resort to torrents and such! I won't do that as I would like to pay the author for his efforts but jeez I feel like they want me to go through hoops. If anyone knows how to bypass geo restrictions in reverse aka getting books outside the us, I'd be willing to try it. It's a shame though as I have over a hundred dollars in gift cards to use at amazon. Grr.

01-26-2012, 01:43 AM	#1
monkeygirl351 Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 496762 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: ipod touch, ipad, and kindle 3	Evil geographic restrictions! Hi all, I have started a new series by a British author. I have the first 2 books. Thayer are the historical fiction books based on robin hood by angus Donald. Anyways, I was going to amazon and figured I buy the third book as I saw it there a few months ago when I bought the other books. Well the third one now says I can't purchase it due to my location (US). I even went to the amazon.uk and couldn't buy it. This is so frustrating, now I know the pain that those outside the US deal with. I emailed the author and his publisher to see why the book was revoked and when it will be back. Wish I knew how to get around the restrictions as I crack drm off all my books anyways. Such a headache. I think I saw on his blog that the paper book is being released later this year, so I am hoping the same will happen with the kindle version. And publishers wonder why people resort to torrents and such! I won't do that as I would like to pay the author for his efforts but jeez I feel like they want me to go through hoops. If anyone knows how to bypass geo restrictions in reverse aka getting books outside the us, I'd be willing to try it. It's a shame though as I have over a hundred dollars in gift cards to use at amazon. Grr.