[GeoffR]

In the three years I have been buying ebooks I think geographic restrictions have increased slightly, but circumventing them remains legal, and trivial to do.

One change that affected me most was the purchase of E-Reads catalogue by Open Road Media. E-Reads used to be sold through Baen and other places DRM-free and without any georestrictions, and are now only sold with DRM and added in-book advertising, and many titles are now georestricted in New Zealand.

Spatterlight Press used to sell without georestrictions, but I now need to use a VPN to purchase their books from New Zealand.

Baen has stopped selling a lot of other publisher's books, including Night Shade books which are now georestricted and most titles unavailable in New Zealand.

The one positive has been the rise of Humble Bundle and other bundle outlets, which sell books without georestrictions that are normally georestricted when sold through the usual channels.

Edit: One compilcation to circumventing georestrictions from New Zealand that will likely arise in the future is the decrease in the current $400 GST threshold on purchases from foreign companies. At the moment there is no issue of tax avoidence on most ebook purchases because no tax is due on purchases under $400, but when that changes then it will probably be necessary for customers to work out the tax themselves when circumventing georestrictions.