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Originally Posted by pdurrant
From a previous check, members should be aware that ebook prices might be higher in the Taiwanese Kobo store.
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Plus, they might not let you buy the book. I am currently finishing up
The Indian Mutiny by Saul David, unavailable as an eBook in the United State, but on the Kobo Taiwan site. It's the first paper book I've read in months. Checking the Taiwanese Kobo store, it seems that the site is smart enough to know that I am not allowed to buy that title as an eBook.
Maybe this is wrong, but I do have my son's Taipei library card number. If that library had bought this particular eBook, I would be reading it. They didn't. So I bought a used hardback from a UK mail order bookstore.
I know this is an old story, but, just maybe, if it is told enough times some international property rights lawyers will get together and figure out a way to stop this barrier preventing big publishers from making more money.