Publishers have contracts restricting their rights to certain geographic areas. It seems to be assumed that sale of ebooks takes place at the purchaser's location, not the retailer's. So US publishers (prompted by UK publishers) have started to ask retailers to enforce these restrictions.
However, if the retailer doesn't know where you are, or thinks you're in the US, the restrictions won't apply.
Change your fictionwise profile country to US. Pay with a US credit card, or possibly a UK credit card mis-stating the country as US, or by paypal if you have a US delivery address in your paypal account, or set up a US paypal account, which can be funded by a UK card, so long as the paypal delivery address is a US address.
It's a bit of a hassle, but once done, it's done.
And check out
http://www.ebookprice.info/ — very occssionally, it's cheaper to buy in the UK.
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Originally Posted by Mindy
Has there been some key shift in my downtime that has left UK and/or Mobi readers disadvantaged? Has anyone else noticed this? And is there a remedy (obvious or otherwise) short of buying a new reader from Waterstones that I'm missing?
All info gratefully received - I feel like I've missed something here!
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