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"UPDATE: O’Donnell shared more details about his experience in the comments section of The Digital Reader blog, revealing that the issue could stem from a differentiation between Google Play and Google Books. He wrote:
Two footnotes: (1) The books were not bought books, they were Google Books scanned 19th century books, all of them *clearly* public domain; (2) I have since discovered that about 6 of the 40 are in fact downloadable, but there is *no* pattern — volume 2 of Middlemarch is downloadable, but not volumes 1 or 3 of the same issue. The error message is that they don’t have Google Play in my country. (Via BoingBoing)."
They weren't books he'd bought. They were public domain books he had access to through Google books. Internet access to google Books from Signapore didn't allow access to those books. This might have been an error or some other problem, but it is valid for access to public domain books from Google Books to be limited to those areas where the books are in the public domain.
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