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tech_au · 03-30-2010, 07:23 PM

I was looking over the new releases at the Oz ebookstore ReadWithPaper yesterday and noticed that Lee Child's new Jack Reacher novel 61 Hours was available in EPUB and also available at UK stores as well but not available at US stores(only audio book format).AU$22 is not cheap but at least its available. I think its the delayed release problem here and it got me thinking about the declining need for non-US people to purchase from US stores. Back catalogue titles of popular authors like Lee Child and Clive Cussler are only around AU$8 to $9 from RWP which are certainly cheap enough to not bother with US purchasing.
It the same situation with UK and Europe as most ebooks from RWP can be purchased by UK and Europe and vice versa for Oz readers with regard to UK stores.

03-30-2010, 07:23 PM	#1
tech_au Oz Bookworm Posts: 516 Karma: 4056 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Australia Device: Sony PRS 505,PRS 650	Declining need to purchase from US ebookstores I was looking over the new releases at the Oz ebookstore ReadWithPaper yesterday and noticed that Lee Child's new Jack Reacher novel 61 Hours was available in EPUB and also available at UK stores as well but not available at US stores(only audio book format).AU$22 is not cheap but at least its available. I think its the delayed release problem here and it got me thinking about the declining need for non-US people to purchase from US stores. Back catalogue titles of popular authors like Lee Child and Clive Cussler are only around AU$8 to $9 from RWP which are certainly cheap enough to not bother with US purchasing. It the same situation with UK and Europe as most ebooks from RWP can be purchased by UK and Europe and vice versa for Oz readers with regard to UK stores.