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All the law does is grant certain rights to the author, who is then allowed to assign those rights to others. If you want to claim the moral high ground and base the whole discussion on a strictly-defined positivist analysis of rights, then there is only one person ultimately responsible for eBooks not being available in a certain country, and that is the author.
In practice, obviously, the situation is far more complex and the real culprit is the creaking inefficiency of the publishing process.
Furthermore, it is somewhat misleading to paint a positivist rights analysis as the only high ground here. I see no objection in terms of natural law to evading a store's geographic restriction - the author still gets paid, as do those who have invested in the book. If others have invested in the book as well but decide not to exercise their rights to recoup their investment, then the purchaser can hardly be blamed. Terms such as 'entitlement' are just a whitewash to cover over the real issues here.
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