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Originally Posted by khalleron
It's not the stores, it's the publishers that enforce the geographical restrictions. FW would LOVE to sell you books - but if the publishers won't allow it, then they can't.
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Well, how comes that Open Domain books from Google
are geo-restricted?
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Originally Posted by djgreedo
I'm not American so I probably couldn't buy from Barnes and Noble if I wanted to, but the way these companies treat customers is really annoying me.
Technology makes it possible for anybody with access to the Internet to pay and download any book ever written (within reason) yet these companies cripple that technology to limit what can and can't be used on any given device. It's stupid.
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Yes, but there's some nasty things like contracts and license agreements and other given rights. Which is understandable in most cases, but I must agree, that sometimes those restrictions doesn't make any sense.
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Originally Posted by djgreedo
It's also stupid that I can buy a book off Amazon and have it shipped to Australia (at quite an extra cost to me) but I can't go on the Amazon ebook store (or Sony store) and buy the same book in electronic format and have it on my reader within minutes (and without an extra $10 for shipping) even though the technology is there.
On the bright side I've probably saved $100 this year so far on books I couldn't buy due to availability/format restrictions and Cory Doctorow has a new fan willing to pay for his books in future after having read some of his DRM-free stuff for free.
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And this is mainly because of the legal acts that apply to digital IP in different countries (or lack thereof).