Thread: Kindle Geographic Restrictions On US Website - Against US Buyers
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Old 12-03-2009, 04:23 PM   #284
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Originally Posted by Argel View Post
So anyway, I got my shiny new reader from a certain internet-based book supplier and cunningly registered it with a US address so that I would have access to their full range rather than the pathetic UK list.

Then I set out to buy the first few books in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series - to be told that, sorry, they were only available to UK purchasers.
Many of those books I wanted to buy from Fictionwise and couldn't because of geo restrictions, I've found available at Amazon now. There's still big names and best-sellers that's restricted, but it was far from as bad as I had feared. They're still $2.5-3.5 more expensive though.
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