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Originally Posted by datcha
Now Kobo (and others) will have special low prices for English books available only in the USA and Canada apparently. Not relevant for me, as I live in France. Actually, many low price offers that one can see here and there for US and Canada are not available in France, not even visible on the sites of Kobo or Amazon (B&N does not do digital business in Europe). The price you see depends on where (they think) you live.
They also have low prices, available in Canada (I am told, see quoted post) and in France (I checked), for Bragelonne books (prices actually at 2,99 €), which are largely translations in French from English (of book I have to buy for 7,99 € in English - I have to conclude that translation costs are negative). Not relevant for me as I read in English.
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I can't answer your question on UK deal notices, but I did want to note that the lack of sales you see in France is
due to the laws there. Book prices cannot be discounted more than 5% off the fixed price printed on them (in the case of printed books), and
this applies to e-books as well. This has been done deliberately to prop up independent book stores so that competition with originally supermarket chains, and now Amazon, won't kill them off. France also made free shipping on books illegal a few years back.
So that's why your book costs are higher in France.