It sells all over the world - but it only buys
American.
This discriminatory behaviour is partly profit-motivated. It
is logistically easier and cheaper to deal only with US
businesses. But Barnes and Noble works directly with foreign
publishers and they preceded Amazon in the book business by
decades.
Yahoo!Geocities has lately instituted a new policy. It limits
the size of downloads from the free home pages of members of
its community. If the downloaded content from a given home
page exceeds 3 Gb (extrapolated based on hourly usage) - the
"offending" member's page is shut down for an hour. The member
is then prompted to pay a monthly subscription fee for a
Premium Service in order avoid a recurrence of this
unfortunate event. This "marketing drive" is intended to
compensate Yahoo!Geocities for a precipitous drop in online
advertising revenues.
The "Premium" package includes "Premium Mail". But only US
citizens or residents can subscribe to it. And, you guessed it
right, without the Premium Mail component, one cannot complete
the subscription process.
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