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Originally Posted by RedHeadPeter
I'm quite offended by that - and no, not the punctuation error (a question mark fits in there I think). It is a determinedly US-centric point of view. Many readers said it was the biggest obstacle. I think the majority of people saying that were from outside the US saying they couldn't buy in the US-based e-book stores. And you wonder how much of an obstacle it really is! How many different ways do you want to hear the same thing before you believe? It's not a problem for e-book users in the USA so, q.e.d, it isn't a problem?
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Perhaps inartfully said, but my question really was how much of an obstacle was it in relation to other obstacles. I fully understand that if you cannot buy a book because of geo restrictions that is an obstacle, but if you can have the geo restriction removed but the book carries a price of $24.99, would you buy the book? Or is price a bigger obstacle than geo restrictions.
Everything is relative. If you wouldn't buy a book because it has DRM, then it doesn't matter whether there are geo restrictions or not as long as there is DRM. In that case, DRM is the bigger obstacle.
I am sorry that you felt insulted. I certainly did not intend to be insulting.