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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The other thing is that buying an ebook is no different than buying a paper book. My parents can and have walked into a bookshop in London and bought me books that were not available in the US. No one jumps up and down and shouts geo-restriction. Instead the book seller, was more that happy to recommend and sell them books that I might like.
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What you've described is a perfect example of why buying an ebook absolutely IS different from buying a paper book. People pretending, or wanting it to be "no different" doesn't actually make it so. Loaning, copying, buying vs licensing, resale, used-market -- MOST concepts (with the exception of the simple act of reading) do not translate smoothly from the pbook world to the e-. Differences between buying an ebook and buying a paper book literally
abound.
And of
course no-one screams about geo-restrictions when tourists walk into a London bookshop and buy books that are unavailable in the US. Your parents were actually
there ...
in the geographic location where the books were licensed to be sold. Why
would anyone scream?