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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
Except in Australia - where they are - wait for it - about 167% of the price everywhere else.
When I asked why, in several different places the response was as usual. None.
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It costs so much more to ship electrons across the ocean!
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Originally Posted by HarryT
The publisher generally has no say in that, so it's not really a consideration. If it's not available to you, then you can't buy it, so the price is irrelevant.
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The publisher is the one with the contract; they *do* have a say in where it's published. Often, they don't make the books available in all regions even when they *do* have the rights, because they're looking for a way to license those rights in other countries. So they're refusing to sell to book-readers, who've never been their direct customers, in the hopes of making business deals with other publishers. Or they've made a deal with a non-US publisher--who isn't bothering to sell ebooks.
It's also possible that Amazon doesn't allow individual settings on availability--or that some publishers have decided it's too much hassle to set each book's availability separately, and they just set them all to US only, or US-and-Canada only.