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Originally Posted by Carnyx
but the B&N auto-reply saying books unavailable via their website in the UK put me off. I guessed this meant that books wouldn't be downloadable via 3G, but please correct me if I'm wrong on that.
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You are wrong on that. If the e-boks aren't available for the region it is usually because of Geographic restrictions. Usually you need lots of tricks to route around geographic restrictions, such as "proper" credit card with "the right" address of residence and a proxy server located in the right country. Sadly, often it is more simple to download the book from ... aehm ... "somewhere else" than route around geographic restrictions.
Geographic restrictions are a carry-over from times when books were printed on paper and it was very impractical for Great Britain resident to import one paper book from USA. So the rights were sold to USA publisher and British publisher. This often means that people in Poland or other non-English-speaking country can't buy such e-book legally anywhere, because USA publisher can only sell to USA and GB publisher can only sell in their designated region. And then publishers complain that people in Russia pirate their works ... sigh ... but this is rant for different thread.