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Originally Posted by dragonbone
The reason is because: I am FURIOUS that they will happily take my (and of course millions of other people's) non American CC for pbooks and other goods, and charge huge shipping fees to ship to anywhere around the world, but won't allow me in their private ebook store!
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Amazon have explained the reasons for this on many occasions - namely, the horrendous legal difficulties involved in negotiating with different telecoms providers around the world for the local equivalent of the Sprint "Whispernet" service, and the fact that many eBook contracts specify territorial restrictions which Amazon are legally obliged to abide by. Eg, many books have different publishers for US and UK editions, and the US eBook is not permitted to be sold to the UK.