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Originally Posted by Blue2u
My only problem with Kobo/pricing, yes, they have offers/coupons, but they don't apply to all books, which quite honestly, is annoying as hell. I understand it has to do with publishers rights, etc. But anyways say I want to buy all of 1 author's books, ie. Anne Rice. Last I checked at kobo, most of them are $10 + each, and the coupons don't apply. Do you have a store you could recommend for purchases like that? I've read about a few, but not sure how reputable, and am hesitant to be giving out credit card info. ie Diesel, books on board.
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Yeah, the big publishers set the prices and don't allow discount coupons (for the moment, that might change when they settle their price-fixing case), so you really can't get a deal on those unless the publishers run a sale. Quite a few people on this forum do buy from Diesel, books on board, Baen, Smashwords, Phoenix Picks, Poisoned Pen Press, and a variety of other vendors without difficulty and many of the sites use Paypal so you wouldn't even have to give them your credit card number.
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Also, a quick search shows me I'd have to use Amazon.com, not .ca But I'm getting that you highly recommend Amazons software, so that's something I will strongly consider. And I'm not opposed to buying through them as I've done so in the past, just asking.
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Right. For ebooks, Amazon has basically set up amazon.com as a multi-region interface, instead of having a dedicated website for every country (they do have a few country specific sites, amazon.co.uk for example) and us Canadians don't rate our own website.
The amazon.com software magically updates the price and availability based on whatever country you are buying from and in a lot of cases the Canadian prices and availability match that of the US. For instance, we can usually buy the daily deals and Amazon will price match publisher sales for us.
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I apologize, I understand we've strayed from Kindle vs Sony, but I've wanted to ask about stores/pricing without posting separate thread since I'm sure its been discussed to death, just not by me. And I've been too sidetracked trying to fix my Kobo to read anymore here. Til today.  So thank you for indulging our sidebar. 
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It's your thread, indulge yourself. Where to buy the ebooks is at least as important as what to read them on.