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Old 07-15-2012, 02:54 PM   #187
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
You don't seem to be understand what people are telling you.

Amazon will show YOU a cheap copy of 1984 because Amazon knows that you are in Australia, and the book is in the public domain there.

Amazon will NOT show someone in the US or the EU the book that you're seeing because for us the book is still protected by copyright.
I understand fully what people are trying to say, but if they don't know that I am Australian based - how do they know what to show me? By the way, it is out of copyright in a number of different countries, not just Australia. Canada for instance.
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