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Originally Posted by Tom Swift
It is tiresome and idiotic. They are driving people towards piracy. I can order any book i want from Amazon and they will ship it to China or wherever I need it to go but I can't get electronic books outside the US? Insane.
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My thoughts EXACTLY!!! This is what makes me so mad. I have been in Japan for 10 years now, and my house is FILLED to the rafters with books from Amazon. I have spent thousands of dollars there and that is NO exaggeration! (I'm sure that people like me spend WAY, way more money at Amazon than the average American). I am a teacher, student, avid fantasy and other fiction reader, collector of beautiful coffee table type books, collector of recipe books (well DH says I'm a collector, since I have at least 40) etc. etc.
Amazon has NO qualms sending all these books (one by one in HUGE double box packaging) all the way to Japan, (and in your case China
) and to every country under the sun at hugely ridiculous inflated shipping costs!
Credit cards from any nation in the world, is readily and greedily accepted, and I'm considered a valued member at Amazon.com! Ha!! What a cheek!
BUT...... tree saving, forest saving, environment saving e-books are DENIED to us!
Well..... I decided about 5 months ago, to never spend ANOTHER red penny at Amazon, ever again.... Unless of course (as I'm fond of saying) they were the last store on the planet OR if by some twist of fate; the Kindle and Amazon became the ipod and iTunes of the future and NOT using their product became a pointless exercise in SULKING.
But not until then. See how Amazon feels when all the book readers in the world (apart from USA residents of course) STOP spending money there!