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Originally Posted by ekbell
Amazon.com normally gives you the US$ equivalent of what the book costs in your area not what it costs in the USA. So, for example, an Open Media book on sale in the USA will generally still show regular price when I check it from Canada at amazon.com  Or I can go to amazon.com and see a number of free Patricia Wentworth books which I'm reliably informed are not free in the US (not completely surprising, given that she's PD in Canada and not in the US). |
Ah - hence the reason folks go to all that trouble to mask their IP addresses with virtual identities associated with other countries. Makes sense now!!