[Mare of Earth]

I used to buy used books anyway. The inability to buy used ebooks has been irritating, however, generally enough of the prices have been low enough to be acceptable to me. I very rarely buy an ebook that costs more than $6. - I adopted ebooks almost 10 years ago, due to the fact that paper books took up too much space. In high school, my room was lined with floor to ceiling bookshelves, and even then I still had stacks and stacks of books on the floor and under the bed (approx. 2-3k books, mixed paper and hardcover, with books I was inclined to re-read often as hardcovers due to the paperback versions having already fallen apart). Now, I just have an ebook reader.
I would have loved to have had access to an ebook reader and an online bookseller when we lived overseas - generally, the only books in English that were available you either brought with you in your shipment, or you borrowed from other English-speaking people in the country you were in. New releases? Yeah, you might get your hands on one if someone was traveling and picked it up and was willing to lend it out, or if you had a catalog and ordered it, but for the most part, the books that you could get to read were older titles and used.
So, not only is the forced pricing model stupidly not consumer friendly, but the geographic restrictions are equally ridiculous!