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Originally Posted by jackleen
That’s a good observation. I’ve also noticed regional redirects on Amazon causing books to disappear or show different versions depending on location. It seems tied to licensing limits for each market.
Has anyone found a reliable workaround for these redirect issues?
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The English language publishing market has traditionally been split between UK and USA, with other countries being counted as part of the UK market or the USA market.
So it's commonly the case that an author will have two publishers, one in each market. And so two ebooks, or one in one market and none in another.
By using an ISBN in the Amazon link, the book search is for a particular publisher's ebook, not a search for the book by title and author.
The redirect is useful for those cases where the publisher has world rights, or where a country has its own Kindle store, and books can't be bought from amazon.com.
It does look like redirects only happen when there's a tag in the URL. "Luckily", any Amazon URL put on MobileRead will automatically get the MR tag added to it.
CONCLUSION
Using the ISBN is the best way to specify links on MobileRead in the Bargains threads, since discounts on ebooks are almost always publisher-specific, and it's the best way to take people to their own Kindle store.