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Originally Posted by sianon
In regard to fictionwise or Books on Board, both take the country address from the credit card used and use this to determine if you can buy from the store. I reside in Australia with an Australian credit card, now should I be holidaying in America and decide I need a fix of new reading material, I log on to the net through some wireless connection, I am in America, using an American internet service, however due to having an Australian Credit card would not be able to make a purchase. How in gods name is this a sensible business model.
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... and it's possible that you wouldn't be able to purchase from a store back home, as you'd have a US IP address...
So, how do we convince the world's authors to all move to Internet-age publishers? Will they follow the smell of cookies?
