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Originally Posted by charlieperry
I think you're stuck with the Iliad at the moment. It's priced at an extortionate $900 in Dymocks. Dymocks are the only bookshop that currently sells ebooks in Australia. They're really expensive as well.
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...but, of course, if you're using a device with Mobipocket on it (eg. Cybook, Iliad) you're not at all restricted to buying from Dymocks/Ebooks.com or Australia. You can buy books from any Mobipocket seller anywhere in the world. For instance, I recently bought an Iliad, and then bought a Modern Library series from Mobipocket themselves (Dymocks didn't have them), and it cost me, from memory $32 (versus $100-$200 new in dead-tree form). So, that's not what I would call "expensive" in that regard, though my desires at the moment are for older fiction, some of which is now public domain, rather than newer releases which may indeed be "expensive" at Dymocks (whom you are not restricted to, as mentioned).
Note as well that, if you have a Sony device, someone around this place (I can't recall their name) will buy gift vouchers to the Sony Connect store on your behalf, allowing you to buy books from that store (normally US-only I believe). I think that's what other Aussies here have done who bought the Sony.
Cheers,
Marc