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Originally Posted by Nigol
But I ask is this book not available only in eBook form or in paper form also? Because I know that it is almost not possible to find french book (legally that is).
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It's available in hardback locally, paperback via numerious online stores, only in eBook in other regions (US for sure, others unsure), and via the Kindle store (eBook) locally.
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Originally Posted by Nigol
I'd download the book and send a letter directly to the author telling him that you can't buy his book because his publisher doesn't do anything and the only way to have it is illegally, maybe he can shake them enough that some day they might wake up.
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I can get the book, just not as a .epub locally. As I said if it wasn't available period as an ebook locally I'd understand (region restrictions), but the exception of Amazon points to some screwy distribution practises.
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Originally Posted by nogle
It seems unrealistic that Kobo would want to deprive a customer of a file they would like to pay for. I suspect this is a licensing problem; Kobo does not have a license to distribute the file in your region. Perhaps the publisher signed an exclusive license with another distributor.
I think this is more of a publisher problem than a Kobo problem.
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Not saying that it is directly a Kobo issue, but indirectly it is when Amazon is the store that will sell it to me. As a consumer I don't care what the behind the scene reasons may be, all I see is I can get it there and not here.
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Originally Posted by melmac
I seem to be running into this problem more and more with Kobo I find that the book is available to Australians from Amazon but not from Kobo its annoying as I prefer to buy in epub when possible.
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As do I, but if it is the only available option for an ebook version of said book it is the likely avenue I will take, and then proceed to format shift. It's just so dang stupid.