Changed from a European to a US delivery adress on amazon, but it stills says the audiobook is unavailable in my region. The audiobook in question is Deerskin by Robin Mckinley, am I missing something? Have audible removed it altogether?
Region lock isn’t through VPN, it’s based on billing address. Make sure you have credits (so it doesn’t check billing) and then change your address to one in the region your trying to access.
my understanding is that they use the billing address from your credit card.
Small world, because I was also disappointed to find that I couldn’t listen to Deerskin in my region. Love this book.
I found that I was able to buy a copy on audiobookstore.com. You just have to make sure that you select US on the drop-down menu in your basket and that’s It!
It signs you up for a subscription but you can cancel right away. Only thing is, the app player is very bare bones but it’s the only way I’ve found to listen.
Hope this helps 
If you can’t find what you want in Audible, at least check estories.com, chapbooks.com, kobo.com, and google books.
Barnes and Nible sells digital audiobooks through their book bookstore.
Microsoft may sell digital audiobooks. Never checked.
Apple seeks digital audiobooks but I don’t know if it’s easy to play these on an Android device.
BooksAMillion used to have a digital bookstore. I don’t know if it’s still operating.
Some of these e-tailers may only be operating and offering books for sale in certain limited national or regional markets.
I’m sure there are other digital audiobook retailers, but those are the ones I have purchased from.
I have never challenged my regional assignment from Audible or Amazon
What I have heard is that you have to have some sort of residential address that you claim is yours and the region that you wish to say is your residence
But you must also have a billing method where the billing address is in that country where you are saying you reside
And in some cases, the billing method must originate in that country where you say you reside
In other words, I have heard that if I wish to present myself as residing in the United Kingdom, where I do not live
I have to have some form of payment through a bank or credit card or other financial institution with that financial institution being located in the United Kingdom or having branches there
And my billing address has to be in the United Kingdom
And I have to have what I say as a residential address in United Kingdom
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I may have some of this wrong, but it can be tricky to try to do regional fooling if you will of the Amazon and Audible process for determining what market you are in
As to why you can’t buy things that’s almost certainly determined by the right holder or the publisher
Amazon and Google and Apple and other places that sell digital material pretty much want to sell it as often as they can to whoever they can with as few restrictions as possible
However, and I have limited understanding of these industries, but what I have been told by people who work in them is that the licensing of material in E versions for sale
Is controlled by either the distributor or the copyright holder, and that all those agreements are concluded on a regional basis of some sort of other
There are various national and regional markets, and this is simply how the industry works right now
Or something like that
My understanding is really primitive and you shouldn’t take anything I say is gospel or even is that well informed
But don’t be surprised if it’s quite difficult to sign up to a market where you don’t reside and you don’t have banking or credit card or financial relationships that are local to that market
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The only person I know who navigate the successfully in two different markets, actually lives about half the year in each market
The person is a citizen of one market
The person has full residency rights in the second market
The person owns real property in both markets, and it’s obviously rather well off
The person has banking relationships, bank accounts, bank cards, and credit cards in both markets, and they have relationships with banks which are native to each individual market
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Obviously, that solution won’t be available to most people and I really don’t know how you get around this
An awful lot of wrong information. Almost all of it is bollocks.
Well, don’t be specific or anything about all the bollocks because if you were that might actually be helpful and we wouldn’t want that would we?