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Old 05-06-2009, 04:04 PM   #16
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Some folks have had to lie and say they are in the U.S. to get their books from BoB and Fictionwise.
I've not come across that yet, and from what I understand, it's only for a small selection...

And those copyright laws are crazy, but that's a whole other can of worms! I just hope Amazon won't miss the boat by being so ... hmmm... punctious (is that even a word?). It could be by the time they finally do decide to cross both oceans (east and west), the market will be much smaller as other webshops will have stepped in.
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Old 05-06-2009, 04:09 PM   #17
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It could be by the time they finally do decide to cross both oceans (east and west), the market will be much smaller as other webshops will have stepped in.
That's not really a bad thing. More competition should give the advantage to the customer (fingers crossed).
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Old 05-06-2009, 04:40 PM   #18
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That's not really a bad thing. More competition should give the advantage to the customer (fingers crossed).
There's that...
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This patent is for the "design" of the Kindle only.
Heh, wouldn't Apple have something to say about this....
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Some folks have had to lie and say they are in the U.S. to get their books from BoB and Fictionwise.
And some folks, like me, actually have legal accounts in the U.S., but live outside the U.S.


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Old 05-07-2009, 05:28 AM   #21
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And some folks, like me, actually have legal accounts in the U.S., but live outside the U.S.


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So, do you have to lie or not?
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Fictionwise is (or was) a smaller target and didn't check rigorously. Amazon has deep pockets. Now that Barnes and Noble owns them, we'll see how that goes.
It is already changing at fictionwise. They now have regionalized a good portion of their DRM content.

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So, do you have to lie or not?

No lying at all. I have a checking and savings account in the U.S. that I still maintain and actively use to purchase things. I move money from one bank here in Peru to the U.S. And I also have a Paypal account.

Whenever I want to buy something from Sony, I just use my U.S. credit card.

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I am sure there are about 50 overlapping patents in the ebook reader area. The lawyers will sure make a lot of money out of this when they come to court.
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