Thread: Guilt from buying from Amazon uk/ca.......Kobo uk/ca
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Old 03-13-2014, 10:38 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
Kobo will only have a problem with it if publishers complain, as you say it's another sale for them. It's publisher who originally pushed stores to take measures to restrict by geography. It really first became an issue when the UK publishers started putting out more than a few titles as ebooks. Before that there wasn't a huge geo-restriction problem. Kobo's current unspoken policy seems to be to go with the "letter" of geo-restricting (as in they restrict based on the address you give) as opposed to the "spirit" of it (they don't seem to use any other methods of determining location) so to speak.
I'm not in the book business. I don't know how they work. I imagined that for each book sold, Kobo take a cut, publisher takes a cut etc.

Looks like it is not.

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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
The only way I can buy eBooks from Amazon CA or UK or elsewhere from the US (besides .com) would be to lie about my location when doing so and even then it doesn't necessarily work.
Why did you have to lie about your location when buying from Amazon.ca or UK?

My billing address is in Canada and have a Canadian credit card, I can sign-in to Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk to buy books from USA and UK without having to "lie" about my location. The best part about Amazon, despite it is Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, my user id/password for Amazon.ca works on them without the need to create separate user id/password.
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