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Originally Posted by ahi
What are you basing your contrary view on, Sweetpea?
- Ahi
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By the fact that if I can "fool" the system (partly) by giving an US address. And by the fact that if I enter that US CC, I'll be able to download The Lost Symbol, without spoofing my IP.
Also on BoB, I've given NL as my country and I can't download all books, if I put up US, I can. It probably also have that CC country check, haven't tried that out yet.
After reading all those things on Amazon, where people aren't allowed to buy ebooks, even though they have a Kindle or Ipod or Itouch, because they don't have an US CC.
It doesn't look where you're living, but it looks where your bank is living (as ficbot already showed). And as you generally don't have a bank account (checking account I believe it's called in English) in a country where you're not living, that check, generally, works.
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Originally Posted by ahi
I wonder why they display at all books that the person browsing cannot purchase...
- Ahi
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They said they were working on that...
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Originally Posted by dickon25
They could go the way Amazon does. Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, et cetera.
Maybe they will...that's what Books on Board have done. Of course, the attraction of US sites for us in the UK/EU is price and choice. The BoB UK site is pretty good for both but the UK etailers like WHSmith and Waterstones are nowhere near as good. I know this is publisher driven and we shouldn't be ranting at stores but I just resent having my options limited like this!
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I noticed something funny about that. I went to BoB, US side. I could find those books I wanted. I couldn't buy all formats, as some were restricted to my country. But if I went UK side (I'm neither UK or US), those books weren't available!
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Originally Posted by nomesque
Optional filter: Filter by Availability (<country>)
Not really THAT hard, dammit.
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They want to implement something like BoB has, trying to find several publishers for the same book, so they can deliver to the whole world.
What I find strange is the fact that an English language book, is restricted for non-English speaking countries. As if a Dutch publisher will print an English book...