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Originally Posted by datcha
Do Kobo, and other ebook providers, have special sales in the UK ?
I subscribed to various US services that inform me about good deals, bargains, freebies, with very variable accuracy. Are there similar services in the UK for UK customers?
I am trying to understand the rules of the game, so that I have a chance of not being always on the losing side.
I am not giving links, since they are most likely to show you web pages that are different from those I see with the same URL.
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I can only really speak about Amazon.
The only Amazon site that shows different prices for the same URL according to your location is Amazon.com
Amazon.de and Amazon.fr (say) normally only show different prices from each other because of different rates of VAT/ TVA
Most of the US sites that inform about good deals, bargains, freebies have a Country selection. I use Luzme.com
http://uk.dailyfreebooks.com
http://uk.ereaderiq.com
Quite often US books have a different publisher in UK so no common prices either way. The US publisher's edition is often available elsewhere in the EU but special offers may or may not carry over.
Even when it's the same publisher's edition, prices this side of the Atlantic may be the converted price + tax or much higher (Open Road is like this).
For Smashwords and for publishers that sell direct like Bookview Café or Baen, going direct may be simplest.