The ridiculous situation with ebook pricing does not make sense, no matter how many placatory emails Waterstones send out.
Michael Connelly's "Nine Dragons" is unavailable to me in the UK from BoB due to geographical limitations.
Waterstones then further extract the urine by adopting the following sales technique.
If authors and publishers want royalties from purchasers then the anomalies between sellers, the restrictions of DRM and the huge embuggerance factor to the buyer, have all to be reconciled. Otherwise I'm going to find out how to use the torrents.
There is another thread about Google's intention to utilise cloud computing to make books available internationally. The example above makes me consider Google's initiative a sensible move which would get my support, and funds.