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Originally Posted by HarryT
Geographical restrictions have nothing whatsoever to do with Amazon. They are rights issues dictated by the publisher.
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And they don't only affect those outside of the U.S. I used to have several UK-only ebooks I wanted to buy, but couldn't in the US--even years after publication. They might be available now, but I wouldn't know: I gave up on checking for availability and moved on. Plenty of other non-US authors/imprints are willing to sell me their bits/bytes. And if I "
absolutely, positively have to read it overnight" (which is extremely rare for me these days), then I'm not going to balk at importing a physical copy. I certainly
prefer ebooks, but when it boils down to it, I prefer reading the books I want to read
even more.