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Originally Posted by ficbot
I suppose the only way I am 'region-ist' is when I read an article on how Google or B&N or some other America-only company is going to be Number One and Win the Ebook War or some such nonsense, and then I laugh because the author of the article clearly does not realize how many non-American book customers there are and how ALL of them shop at other stores...
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Very true, though that's true of pretty much everything, not just e-books.
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Originally Posted by gmw
This could almost make up a topic on its own. I have pretty much always read the author's foreword or afterword (if any), and these days I often look up the author on Wikipedia or their website (if any).
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I'll read a foreword and/or afterword if they're present, but it's very rare that it occurs to me to look the author up on Wikipedia or their website. Each to their own, I guess.