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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?
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 see how buying a book from a legal retailer can be compared with pirating, regardless of whether you shop around or not. But that's just me. From an author standpoint, because I'm indie, my opinion is probably not the same as a trad publisher. I don't care where you buy my books, country, retailer, website, etc. I do care about pirating and no matter how many times people tell me, "But wait, it's visibility" I am still against it.
Now for trad: The US publisher gets nothing usually if you buy it in the UK so the US publisher cares. Does the publisher feel it is pirated? Probably not, but each country does try to keep you inside the bounds because they are more interested in their own profit, even if the company shares a parent company. Is it morally wrong? I have no idea. I have more important moral questions to worry about than whether or not shopping around is going to slight my record.
