Posted Aug 27, 2013 23:58 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Amazon says it's 'unavailable for purchase' :(
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Posted Aug 28, 2013 2:08 UTC (Wed) by happynut (subscriber, #4117)
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Its available for kindle at amazon.com, but not at amazon.ca or amazon.co.uk. Follow Corbet's link; it worked for me. Since you said "a pound a page" I'm assuming you checked amazon.co.uk...
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Posted Aug 28, 2013 7:54 UTC (Wed) by johill (subscriber, #25196)
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That's interesting, the link also says unavailable for me (from Germany) - do they do something with geoIP? That's odd though, I've bought many ebooks on amazon.com (and in fact my kindle is still registered in the US)
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Posted Aug 28, 2013 9:40 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
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The link works from Brazil, too.
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Posted Aug 29, 2013 6:30 UTC (Thu) by ayeomans (subscriber, #1848)
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From the UK, when I tried that link I get the message "Kindle titles are available for UK customers on Amazon.co.uk." (where the "Buy" button is normally), Only the hardback is (expensively) available.
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Posted Aug 29, 2013 13:24 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
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The problem is that the Authors have historically sold publishers the rights to publish books only in specific parts of the world.
this makes sense when you are talking about printed books, where the publisher needs to have a distribution chain setup in that part of the world to be able to sell the books.
But unfortunately, the e-book version suffers from the same distribution limits, even when they don't really make sense.
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Posted Aug 28, 2013 2:09 UTC (Wed) by ghane (subscriber, #1805)
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Maybe they ran out, and are running "cp" for more copies?
Oh wait, Amazon like Jon better than it likes you? :-)
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Posted Aug 30, 2013 17:32 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Jon lives in the US, while I live in the UK like Alastair so, it seems, am not allowed to read his stuff unless I want to spend on the order of £100 per novella. Wonderful. :/
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Posted Aug 30, 2013 19:55 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
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Surely you mean £10? I'd expect a lot more than a novella at £100…
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Posted Sep 2, 2013 9:44 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Unfortunately not. These things were expensive chapbooks when they were printed -- now, years out of print, you're talking £70+. With a lot of +.
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Posted Aug 30, 2013 23:21 UTC (Fri) by klossner (subscriber, #30046)
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I have observed successful purchases of geographically-restricted digital products from Amazon by routing the web traffic through a proxy in a non-restricted country. Evidently the customer's home address and credit card currency are not considered.
