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Originally Posted by Dallista
The problem is that so far, I've seen no indication that the books will ever made available to me on the amazon US website, i.e. the only website I can legally buy these e-books. Amazon have proven I can read their newly released SW novels within a few minutes past midnight on release day. We're now eight months past release of those older novels. Wait? I think they've had more than enough time to solve any issues with geo-restrictions, release in European countries or whatever the problem is. 
But yeah, I'll read something else. Like the new novels, which thankfully I can get. |
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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Then I guess they won't be getting your money.
Back when I had a Kindle, I had to deal with Amazon being unable or unwilling to sell me books so I simply had to do with out. It sucks, but ya know what? I survived the ordeal.
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Geo Restrictions are not something created by Amazon so stop blaming Amazon. Amazon can only sell books that they are authorized to sell by contract. If a book has a contract that allows the book to be sold in the US but not Italy there is nothing that Amazon can do about it.
Sony, Barnes and Nobles, Smashword, Baen, name your favorite bookstore cannot sell books that the Publisher does not have a contract to sell.
Amazon and all the other bookstores out there are not the ones who wrote the laws that allow paperbooks to be sold any where in the world because the point of distribution is the store in the US but restrict the sale of e-books and other electronic media based on the computer at your home being to point of distribution. Trust me, all of the bookstores would love for geo restrictions to go away because they want to sell you the e-book.
Geo restrictions are pretty easily circumvented. There are a multitude of threads on this site discussing how to get around them that allow you to buy the book from a US based store without too much hassle.