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Originally Posted by datcha
Do Kobo, and other ebook providers, have special sales in the UK ?
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They certainly do, though not nearly as often, and often the discounts aren't nearly as deep as in North America. EreaderIQ has a
UK version of the site you could use for putting books on your alert wishlist.
You can also check Kobo's UK website, which usually lists daily deals and special offers via links on the front page, either by firing up a VPN IP proxy before visiting, or just being logged-in to an account with a billing address filled out for a UK location, in order to see their UK offers in the first place. And there's Amazon UK's Kindle Deals pages, some of which are sometimes multi-store publisher promos that will be available at Kobo UK and thus obtainable by "traveling".
Holiday weekends are good times to check for sales, as usually Kobo tries to do about one a month. Right now they've a
3 for 2 offer in the UK (presumably to tie into Father's Day) on "pulse pounding American thrillers" with titles by Preston & Child, Eric van Lustbader, C. J. Box, etc.
I'll also note that for anyone who does want to read original French-language books Kobo Canada (and presumably France) also semi-regularly run promo sales on non-translated stuff, with sf/fantasy authors such as Pierre Pevel (Prix Imaginaire), and a whole bunch of Québécois thriller and tearjerker novel writers that I don't read. And some imprints have backlist of francophone authors starting relatively cheaply at their "regular" prices, such as
Élisabeth Vonarburg (Aurora Award) at $7.99 CAD.