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Keeyum · 10-13-2009, 06:09 PM

I don't think its Amazon's fault the geo restrictions are in place. Although it does sound like the Kindle store is a little broken at the moment. The restrictions seemed to be from the publishers decision to enable e-books in certain countries. It's like the video game market. Some video games aren't available in certain countries because of the the publisher's decision to exclude or include certain areas of the globe.

Or their might be some weird licensing agreements for some books. For example in Europe their is a Singstar game that allows users to download songs from an online song library and the US also has this store. However, the music on the two stores are not identical because of licensing agreements.

10-13-2009, 06:09 PM	#44
Keeyum Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: California Device: Kindle 2	I don't think its Amazon's fault the geo restrictions are in place. Although it does sound like the Kindle store is a little broken at the moment. The restrictions seemed to be from the publishers decision to enable e-books in certain countries. It's like the video game market. Some video games aren't available in certain countries because of the the publisher's decision to exclude or include certain areas of the globe. Or their might be some weird licensing agreements for some books. For example in Europe their is a Singstar game that allows users to download songs from an online song library and the US also has this store. However, the music on the two stores are not identical because of licensing agreements.