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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I've just had this dilemma for the current Book Club book. It's Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. In both the US and the UK it's published by Random House.
At Kobo UK it's £6.49 and the 50% off coupon won't work.
At Kobo US it's $11.99 but the 50% coupon does work. Add in (say) Colorado taxes, and it's $6.45 net, which works out to £4.20.
So, what should I do?
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Kobo US.
What does it matter? If I can get stuff cheaper at Amazon.de I buy there. If it's cheaper at Amazon.co.uk, I get it there. If I want an e-book, I look into the various stores and get it at the cheapest one. (And Amazon must be WAY cheaper than the cheapest EPUB store, as I don't want AZW3 or MOBI books as a source format if I can help it.)
In this case, Kobo UK and US are just competing; no matter it's the same company in the end. Why should you feel obliged to pay more?
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The author is the same, the retailer is the same, the publisher is the same.
But I save £2.29 if I buy at the US store. In other words, buying from the UK store would be just over 50% more expensive.
Does anyone really think the author, retailer or publisher would think that it was just as wrong for me to pirate the ebook?
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I don't know, but if you can legally get the same product at two different places, one being cheaper than the other, then you would be stupid to pay more, EXCEPT if something else may skew the equation (service, warranty terms, delivery costs...); but those points are mostly moot voor e-books.
Get it at Kobo US. I would.