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Originally Posted by Fbone
Perhaps, the reason has to do with each individual country's laws and restrictions than with the retailer's unwillingness.
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Trust me on this, draconian copyright laws are not a feature of living in China. It's one of the reasons I like this place. It's just in this case, B&N don't care enough to make it happen but I digress slightly. I didn't actually mean to imply it's the company's fault that it's so ridiculously hard to sell books internationally, I just meant that it shouldn't be that hard. Multinational Corporations have been around how long? International banking? The internet? It's high time culture superseded country.
One more thing, there are B&N bookstores in the UK, Hong Kong, Australia and who knows where else. But their ebooks, the ones delivered on the technology that can send them anywhere on the face of the planet and even at least once place not on the face of the planet, are only available in the US. Talk about irony.