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Originally Posted by JD78
Ironically, I started this thread because the book/author (Clive Cussler's Pacific Vortex!) I wanted is an American author, but the book is available in Kindle format on the UK store (not the US one).
As I looked into other books in his Dirk Pitt series, I have found several others that are in the same situation (Kindle format available in the UK, but not the US).
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Well, last week was my birthday and I got a chunk of money to spend in eBooks as a present. I wanted to purchase Dune series and my surprise came when I could buy ALL books EXCEPT Chapterhouse: Dune.
But it was aviable in the US. I'm really sorry, but then I automatically went to my account and created an US address to get it. The book is like 26 years old, and it has been published a gazillon times everywhere. I mean that is not like if I wanted to purchase the 4th book of Eragon that was released yesterday (i.e) and it was in US only for some weeks till it get's here. I spent like 40 euros in books and Amazon decided that I wasn't going to read the whole Dune series because I'm not american. So I cheated, and gladly. If I had known that the whole series was unaviable for me I'd just go somewhere else and get it. Of course, the two new books of the main series by Frank Herbert's son are not aviable in Europe as eBooks.
In any case, this is not some kind of whim, I got my book, and I backup'd them for if Amazon decides to pay a bisit to my Kindle, so I'm happy. But I don't understand why there has to be a distinction between countries for digital services. I understand that there is one between Kindles, of course, because they have to go and send the machine, but between items that are just computer data? What's the difference?
Another thing was two books I wanted to get: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The tale of Sleepy Hollows. In America I could get them free, but in EU, I had to pay 3$. Can someone explain me why?