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Originally Posted by Striking Claw
The strange thing is that with "traditional" pubishing in paper form there was never a problem to order a book from a US online shop and have them send it to Europe. That's what I did before I had an eBook reader. I never had Amazon decline an order because I wanted it shipped to Europe. In the beginning I also never had a problem with eBooks. All eBooks on Mobipocket and other online shops where available world wide. Over the last couple of months more and more books are restriced to purchase by US and Canadian customers only. What's even stranger is that one eBook my be available to customers outside US at Mobipocket but not at Diesel Books for example, while with an other book ist exactly the oposite.
Publishers complain about piracy problems and create a model where a lot of books would only be available for a lot of customers in some illegal way. For instance I have not found a way to purchase "Orphan's Triumph" by Robert Buettner as an eBook. I could by the paper version from Amazon without a problem. I for myself decided that if a publisher doesn't want my as a customer for his eBook, I sure as hell will not buy the book at all.
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My thoughts EXACTLY regarding the buying of pbooks from Amazon but not the ebooks! Well - actually I agree with everything you said.
To go slightly off topic..... I'm a huge audiobook fan and I've been a member at audible for about 7 years now. In the last year or so, I've noticed many, MANY more books 'not available to my geographical location'. Often times half way through a series! In the past - about 1 out of every 20th (plus/minus) book I wanted or was interested in, wasn't available. Now I'd reckon, about 1 in every 5 books. Amazon has recently bought out Audible - so I can't help but make a connection.....