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Originally Posted by sabredog
Due to contractual agreements and distributing rights which appear to be different in most cases to hard/paper-cover books, residents of countries that wish to purchase an ebook title cannot.
This issue is becoming more and more restrictive and often occurs mid series. An earlier book or books available to be purchased but later not.
There are some workarounds for a purchaser to be able to buy geo restricted titles but these are becoming fewer. The vast majority of GR books appear to originate from US publishers, even if the selected author is a citizen of the same country the purchaser resides in.
This ridiculous restriction almost more than anything else would certainly make the would be purchaser look at "other" options in order to acquire the ebook title they were keen to purchase.
No point worrying about DRM and prices when a book cannot be purchased at all.
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Exactly! One can buy any paper book at for eg. Amazon.com, and have it shipped to anywhere in the world, but about 80% of the exact same inventory in ebooks from Amazon.com (and now audiobooks too) are not available due to geographical restrictions.