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Old 01-22-2019, 04:50 PM   #2285
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Originally Posted by bob.f View Post
Really? I wonder what the logic of this is. I'm not sure how often this holds true. For me, in UK with no VPN, I often hit a .com link for a book, whereupon .com informs me this book is not available for me to purchase and offers to redirect me to .uk.
That's right, so it doesn't show you the US store, you can't see the price of the book in the US.

Other retailers have ways to link to their regional stores without using a VPN. For Apple and Kobo you can change the country code in the URL. For Google Play you can append a country code (&gl=) to the URL. E.g.

C. J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station at the Google Play US store:
https://play.google.com/store/books/...AwAAQBAJ&gl=US

At the Google Play Canada Store:
https://play.google.com/store/books/...AwAAQBAJ&gl=CA
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