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Originally Posted by daffy4u
Would you mind clarifying this? My understanding is that geo-restrictions are based on the for publishing rights in each country. If you are restricted from purchasing a book from the U.S. Kindle store, that same restriction should apply at any U.S. based ebook retailer (Fictionwise, BoB, B&N...).
Do you not have to work-around this by changing your home country to the U.S. in order to purchase books? If that's true, then how is Amazon more difficult (harsher) than another store?
I'm in the U.S. so for the most part I don't have to deal with it so I may not have a clear understanding of what others outside the U.S. are going through.
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Currently Amazon performs checks on the IP and I'm assuming on the country the Kindle is actually used. Recently there has been quite a number of reports of people receiving notices from Amazon informing them they need to provide proof of US residence after they used the workaround to buy US restricted books. So the Kindle store is more difficult to bypass the restrictions and you run the risk of having your account closed.
With Fictionwise it seems to be easier to use the workarounds. A valid US address is all that's needed when paying via a CC. On rare occasions you need to use a proxy to download the purchased book once. After that you can use your account normally and it stays available for download without any checks.