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Yes, these geographic restrictions are tough on the ex-patriot community - even on me when I live in the US half of the year. My Spanish is not good enough yet to read for enjoyment. There is insufficient market for English language book or eBook vendors in Mexico.
Why should the Tokyo resident be restricted from buying eBooks in English from outside Japan? There is not much business for the local distributors to lose.
Why should the Brit living in Spain be restricted from buying eBooks from the UK? I doubt his local market supplies much in English.
It seems easy to comprehend, if the book's language is NOT that of the buyer's country - there is NO market to lose.
Perhaps some of us have become global citizens, yet the multinational publishing industry has not.
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