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Originally Posted by geertm
It is of course nice that you can use workarounds to buy geographical restricted books (I do the same at Fictionwise), but most people buying an international Kindle will just register their Kindle for their own country and complain about all the books that are not available.
A lot of people probably will buy the Kindle because it is so easy to buy the books. I do not think that most Kindle buyers will be the kind of people that use the internet to keep up with all the workarounds needed to buy geographical restricted books.
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I totally agree. I wish we'd have the Federation of Planets. Or at least being real global. Same product, same price, same quality everywhere. At least, when only handling content without a physical product, this should be the goal.
And of course it's a joke, that Amazon and Apple (to name just 2) leave such huuuge backdoors. Obviously, the business model says: "We have to regulate because of license issues. But we're business people and eagerly look the other way". I've read somewhere, Apple makes way more revenue with US gift cards in Europe than the US itself...