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Originally Posted by abookreader
Well just to add fuel to the fire, sometimes it is a different Publisher.
For instance the book I was considering.
Publisher A has the rights to sell in the US with a release date next week. Right now the pre-order price is $10.99 on Amazon.
Publisher B has the rights to sell in the UK and the book has been for sale for over a week now. Right now the price on Amazon is $5.41
So if I hop onto a VPN and purchase giving a UK address. Amazon will get paid (likely less). The author will get paid (probably less but it depends on the contract.) Publisher A loses a sale. I'm supposed to be their customer given my passport. Publisher B gains a sale, they aren't supposed to get anything from me.
It still doesn't bother me though I understand the position of others take that it is morally wrong and against my Amazon TOS to deceive using IPs and different addresses. I just don't agree with their opinion.
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Proved my point... Why do I have to worry about contracts that were done behind closed doors and in private? Amazon will get paid less because it will make the difference up in mass quantity and will break even eventually. At the end of the day publisher's and authors are looking out for their bottom line. Let's sell this book for a lesser price in the US, Canada or China because most likely people will buy it in mass quantities or ect. Let's sell it in France for a higher price because we have studied the consumer in this geographical area and most likely there will not be mass buying. Where's the moral in that? It's just plain supply and demand. So all this mumbo jumbo language that Kobo or Amazon puts on their website about you have to make sure you are buying in your geographical area based on your IP address is to protect their business and their bottom line. If any smart consumer can research a certain area and buy at a different price what's the problem? I have cousins that live in another country and attend College...their textbooks sell way cheaper in the US than in their respective countries. When they visit or if I can, I buy their textbooks for them and ship it to them (still comes out cheaper)....so am I or my cousins morally cheating the publisher?
I don't think so.