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Originally Posted by Katsunami
LOL. That's actually a very plausible explanation. I should have thought of it myself.
Do you also have an explanation why at first many books were available to the entire world, later on only to US, which caused me problems to buy them, while it's now possible to buy them, even though they're still US only?
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Not specifically.
The ebook vendor sites seem to have the world split up into regions, based on the country you are connecting from and/or the country specified in your account:
- US Only
- UK Only
- Specific British CommonWealth only (Aus, NZ, etc)
- US Centric - English Rest of World
- UK Centric - English Rest of World
- English Rest of World - both US and UK
- Non-English (not explored much)
The US/UK centric categories mean that the books available are from the publishers in that country.
What may be happening is that the books are moving from the US Only to the US Centric - English Rest of World categories.
Even in a category, the pricing can be different from country to country. As can availability, for example some books by an author may be missing from a particular Rest of World site, but present in others. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to this.