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Old 09-08-2010, 09:40 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
For those who want to know what the shortlist actually is:
  • "Parrot and Olivier in America" by Peter Carey (Faber and Faber)
  • "Room" by Emma Donoghue (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
  • "In a Strange Room" by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books - Grove Atlantic)
  • "The Finkler Question" by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury)
  • "The Long Song" by Andrea Levy (Headline Review - Headline Publishing Group)
  • "C" by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
It appears that ALL titles can be purchased in Kindle format in the UK.

The titles in bold can be purchased in Kindle format in Canada and US from amazon.com.

The titles in bold italic can be purchased in Kindle format in the US but NOT in Canada from amazon.com.

All the titles except The Long Song by Andrea Levy can be purchased in Canada from kobobooks.com as DRM ePub. That title is available in the US from Sony eReader store (but not Canada).

The Sony e-reader store has some, but not all, of the titles, and some not in both Canada and the US.

Waterstone's in the UK carries only 4 of the 6 as ePub. However, this includes The Love Song and it appears they are willing to sell it to me in Canada.

On balance: given it's a British prize, bravo that all the titles can be purchased there in Kindle format. And there is complete, or near complete, availability in North America (although in Canada you need both Kindle and ePub readers) -- and one may have to be a little adventurous to find a legal source for every title (ie opening a Waterstone's account in Canada).
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