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Well, coming from AUS, where until buying online became a worthy & possible thing, we often missed out on releases or they were only available for a short time .... seeing as they were mostly American or British authors ... and there were special deals with other countries and publishers ... or not.
So I missed out on many a good book ... until the revolution happened.
When online purchasing became a reasonable option to me, I managed to get many many books I was never able to, and for decent prices too ... mostly from American and Canadian Library sales ... when those items made it to Booksellers like Better World Books. Then a few years later, ebooks happened for me.
Mind you, meanwhile I had also been getting many goodies from the Gutenberg Project.
So in the end, there is only a small handful remaining, of books I've not yet been able to get.
And I won't talk about the shonky behavior of Publishers who use different names for a book when released in another country. That doesn't seem to be as widespread now, but it still pays to check Wikipedia ... especially as author home pages can't always be trusted to let you know either. You can get caught out when a place like Better World Books sells both versions, and either there isn't a blurb or enough of a one to set alarm bells ringing.
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