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Originally Posted by Geralt
If people from all over the world can buy paper books from for example bookdepository from England, I see no reason why they should be deprived of buying the same book in ebook form from amazon or anywhere else for that matter. Bookdepository is owned by amazon just to be clear.
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1- Geo restrictions are stupid.
2- eBooks aren't sold. They are licensed. What you buy are licenses with strings attached. Even DRM-free ebooks have restrulictions attached to those licenses; some are liberal, some are not.
3- The owner/controller of the copyright decides, for better or worse, how and when and to whom they license their property. It is not up to consumers, politicians, or bureaucrats to decide.
Seriously, why all the angst?
We're drowning in good content, anyway. Both frontlist and backlist.
Will it kill you to do without that one ebook? If it is important enough, why not buy the pbook?
Or, move on: give your money to somebody who wants to do business with you. Plenty of quality ebooks are published without georestrictions these days and they tend to be the best-priced ones, too.
Or, if you are determined to have it your way, over the publisher's intent, just pirate the darn thing and be done with it. Either you respect the IP owner or you don't.