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Originally Posted by Snowman
I won't be bothering. Nearly all of my (long) wish-list is geo-restricted, as are virtually all the new books that looked interesting. I know I could jump through a few hoops, get my USian family members to purchase them for me, or even some of my US-based colleagues (who volunteered after a rant!), but who needs this nonsense? I certainly don't. I've already got a huge reading/re-reading list, so I'm really not going to miss that much.
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No need to rant. Those-geo restrictions are very easy to circumvent:
1 Change the country in your Fictionwise account to USA
You can now use Micropay to pay for geo-restricted books.
2 If you want to pay with your credit card (to get the large rebates) you can use your UK credit card. Just use any valid USA addresss (for example google a pizzahut in New York) as the billing address on the payment page.
If you you change the addresss in your Fictionwise account to this USA addres, and change the country to USA, you can buy all books and geo-restrictions do not exist.
3 For a very few books you might see a credit card check on your bookshelf instead of a download link. For those books use
www.hidemyass.com to access your bookshelf. After downloading those books once, the credit card check will be gone.
4 If in step 2 your payment is not accepted because you get a warning about location (happened to me just once, no one else has mentioned this), just get a cheap ($8,50) USA VPN account at
www.alwaysvpn.com.
You can also use such an account for step 3.
Good reading!