Ipad dead !!

Hi, I used my iPad normally yesterday night, battery almost full, and this morning the iPad is totally dead, I thought maybe the battery was empty so I plugged it in, no sound to be heard and it is just plain dead !! I cannot re-start it and nothing happens when I touch any of the control buttons. Can anyone help me out please ? I can't bring it to the Apple store as there is no apple store in the country I live and I have bought my iPad in the USA.
Thank you.

Same problem - just playing on Angry Birds and suddenly the screen went black and nothing.
Holding down the on/off and home buttons together brought it to life and the iTunes logo appeared instructing me to plug the iPad into my computer. In the iTunes window a message appeared informing me that the Ipad was in recovery mode. The next bit is a bit of a pain - the only way as far as I can see to get the iPad out of recovery mode is to restore it to it's original factory settings. This was easy enough to do because my personal settings had been backed up via iTunes. It is just annoyingly time consuming.
Does anybody know of an easier and quicker way to rectIfy this frustrating problem. The problem would have been a bigger problem if I had been away from home without access to my computer.

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