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Need to purchase books from the American App Store!

I have a Saudi Visa credit card and I can't purchase iBooks when I switch to my American App Store account.

The Saudi iBookStore only has very old and classic books.


Any solutions?

Posted on Jul 7, 2014 5:38 AM

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Jul 8, 2014 12:44 AM in response to Samerman

You need to be in a country to use its store, unless you are in the US and have a US billing address on your account then you can't use the US store - by using a US account whilst in Saudi Arabia you are violating the store's terms that you agreed to. Are there other ebook apps/stores available in the Saudi store e.g. Amazon/Kindle, Nook, Kobo etc ?

Jul 10, 2014 1:07 AM in response to Samerman

All content (ibooks, apps, music etc) is supplied to Apple by the content providers to sell on a country-by-country basis (they want control over where their content is sold), each country therefore has to have its own store, and you have to be in a country (and have a billing address in that country on your account) to use its store. You can try requesting that the books be added to the Saudi store, but without the rights-holders agreement Apple wont be able to sell it there : http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html (as fas as I can see no paid-for books are currently available in the Saudi store, I assume that so far not enough publishers have agreed to let Apple sell paid-for books there)


If you are trying to use the US store when not in the US then you violating the store's terms that you have agreed to - Apple could potentially permanently disable the account.

Need to purchase books from the American App Store!

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