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Originally Posted by ballfresno
Exactly. It's not as if I am short of material to read. 
If they don't want my business. plenty of others do. |
I take a somewhat different approach. For the most part, I buy specific books by specific authors, not generic books by generic authors. That means that if a book that I want to read isn't available in my geographic territory, but is available in another geographic territory (say for example, the UK), then I'm interested. I have friends in the UK, so I could probably arrange for one of them to set up an account with a prepaid credit card that I could use.
What holds me back is there are only a hand full of books that I am interested in that are available in the UK but not the US and most of those books eventually do make it to the US, so it's just not worth the effort to me. I'm sure that those who live in other countries, might be a lot more interested in setting up methods of buying books in the US.
Personally, as long as the author gets paid, I don't see any moral issues. I agree with some of the previous posters who call the practice out of date. In today's electronic market, geographic restrictions isn't viable long term.