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Originally Posted by geertm
I just leave my profile set to USA, because at the moment it seems that all the new books by popular writers at Fictionwise have geographic restrictions. Almost every book I buy at Fictionwise is only available for the USA.
I wonder how many customers they are losing because of these short-sighted restrictions? By restricting their sales to just the USA they are left with a market where they have to compete with Amazon/Kindle.
As the Fictionwise books cannot be read on the Kindle (at least for the average Kindle reader) they already loose half of that market. I wonder how long Fictionwise is able to make a profit that way? Or is Barnes & Noble converting Fictionwise to an USA-only store like the Amazon Kindle store?
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AFAIK, it's the publishers who is to blame - and even, I think(?), the European publishers, who have the publishing rights for Europe. Apparently that restricts what can be sold from USA to Europe via download. Idiotic as it seems to us, there are little FW can do.
I must admit, I doubt that there are enough international customers to actually have much, if any, impact, or to make this issue a priority for anyone but us.