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DiapDealer · 10-19-2014, 08:32 AM

I don't think you'll find any legitimate vendors who will knowingly ignore/flaunt geographic restrictions to sell you ebooks that they have no right to sell you. Geo-restrictions are not something imposed by the retailers/vendors and have nothing to do with their sanity or their "strictness." I'm sure they'd love to sell you a copy if they were allowed. It's the rights-holders—not the vendors—who authorize/contract for the various distribution rights in other countries.

Representatives of the authors, or the publishers they've signed their rights over to, are the ones acting "insanely."

Perhaps I've misunderstood, though, and you're looking for vendors who make it easy for you to fool them into thinking you're in a geographic region they're allowed to sell to?

10-19-2014, 08:32 AM	#2
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,661 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I don't think you'll find any legitimate vendors who will knowingly ignore/flaunt geographic restrictions to sell you ebooks that they have no right to sell you. Geo-restrictions are not something imposed by the retailers/vendors and have nothing to do with their sanity or their "strictness." I'm sure they'd love to sell you a copy if they were allowed. It's the rights-holders—not the vendors—who authorize/contract for the various distribution rights in other countries. Representatives of the authors, or the publishers they've signed their rights over to, are the ones acting "insanely." Perhaps I've misunderstood, though, and you're looking for vendors who make it easy for you to fool them into thinking you're in a geographic region they're allowed to sell to? Last edited by DiapDealer; 10-19-2014 at 08:41 AM.