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I think that the problem you have is that of geography. Most authors have a contract that is geographically limited. If you take a best seller eg Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall then she has a contract in the UK with Harper Collins which allows them to sell the book in the UK and English speaking countries in other parts of the world (except Canada and the USA).
If you happen to be a Canadian or an American then you get a different edition of the book. If you log onto, let us say, Amazon.com then they look at the IP address that you are coming from and they know that you are in the UK so they will only offer you the Harper Collins version of the ebook. If you were coming in from a US IP address then they would offer you the Henry Holt version of the book (ie the one published in the US). So to say that you are willing to pay in USD misses the point - Amazon (or whoever) are simply not allowed to sell the book outside of their territory.
It may sound crazy, it may be crazy, but that is the law.
As an aside, actually having an EPUB reader in the UK is a good idea. The local library services are beginning to offer loans of a pretty wide range of books and they favour the EPUB format, so don't despair.
Millicent
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