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Originally Posted by Sonist
Bleh, why bother selling ebooks outside of the US?
Everyone knows, that those people people can't read. Heck, most of them can't even speak, but just make some unintelligible sounds that don't make no sense.
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It would be even funnier, but a couple of years ago I was walking in downtown Kyoto and I overheard two American tourists (NY accents,) one saying to the other; "Look Helen, they even have a branch of "Takashimaya" here!!"
There is no doubt that many of the sales policies are generated by licensing agreements with publishers, manufacturers, and suppliers. These do make sense when there are external outlets for the same products in other countries and the originator needs to protect their clients. They do NOT make sense when there aren't!
Amazon's refusal to sell products outside the USA is too often (but not always) little more than internal policy. It extends to far many products from Amazon that can be obtained from other American outlets. When I click on a product in Amazon, the larger percentage of time I get a message 'this product can not be shipped to your location.' When I can get the same product from B&H in N.Y., I have to accept the fact that it is Amazon, and not the supplier, making the rule.
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