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Originally Posted by Stratogirl
Good morning/evening people,
I have seen other threads in this forum where people discuss djvu files.
As I never heard of books being published in djvu format I thought that all these djvu files that people are talking about were scanned books. As no one cited any titles, they could all be books current on print.
Amazon seems to have a strange policy.
Many of the books that I would like to buy are not available for shipping to Romania. Even Kindle editions, which requires no "shipping".
Even the free public domain books in Kindle edition that are free to download in UK and US are sold for 0.99 to Romania residents.
@ kennyc:
Thanks for the sugestion on the djvu reader. I used WinDjvuReader to open the file. But what I would like is to convert it so that I can read on the Kindle and be able to increase the font size so that I can read without glasses.
I understand the book is very basic. But it's exactly what I need. It's not like I'm majoring in particle physics. I'm just doing a course on marketing and PR and was requested to write a paper on a subject that fascinates me. So it doesn't have to be highly technical. And this book is the only one that I could find on popular quantum physics (or Quantum Mechanics for Dummies as Diap put it :-)
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If you cannot find the book then you should tell your professor. Shame on professors for requiring books that cannot be purchased or located for use.
Have you looked in the college library? I think a book that old should be in a decent college library. Students cannot afford to be choosy, they need to get their information in whatever format they can find it, and sometimes that means reading a borrowed library book.
As far as availability of certain books in foreign lands, Amazon perhaps has their own policies. I suspect the reason has more to do with USA and foreign laws and with the publisher's policies than it does with Amazon's policies. Don't forget that Romania was a communist country with a dictator not that many years ago, so I wouldn't be surprised if the USA highly restricts what can and cannot be traded there. True many years have passed since then, but USA policies often take decades to reflect those changes. For example, the Cuba missile crisis occurred 50 years ago and yet we (in the USA) still have a lot of trade restriction with Cuba.
Bottomline is that the book is most likely available in Romania in some legal format. You just need to get off you backside and go find it. A huge part of being a student is to learn how to find and use the information you need.