I took a look at prices and availability of books by, among a few others, the following authors: Edward Rutherfurd, Antonia Byatt, David Liss, Marian Keyes, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Umberto Eco, Lawrence Norfolk, Tracy Chevalier. Those that I knew weren't available from Fictionwise og BoB, weren't available from Amazon.com either. That was what I expected.
Only a few books of the ones i searched for were available from Europe, and except for one, they were
cheaper at Waterstones and WHSmith. Only "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mankel, a recently published book that won the Man Booker price, came out 2 USD cheaper at Amazon.com. Weee! (No, not really.)
The
only reason to buy a Kindle as far as I can see, is the convenience of buying and downloading directly to the device. Books doesn't appear (to me) to be cheaper, and there are not a wider range of books available than in existing online, European, stores, but I hope this situation might push the publishers to make more titles available outside USA.
I checked the price, just the Kindle, without the cover, came to 375 USD for me, including shipping and taxes.
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Originally Posted by jlick
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My thoughts are that this is still a useful alternative to those with no US credit card to be able to participate in the ebook market. It beats paying almost $10 shipping to buy a physical book from amazon.com with 3-6 weeks international shipping. For me, I have a US credit card so I think I'll just stick to downloading on my computer for now and save the two bucks.
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Well... Yes, but it's not a good comparison, because far more p-books are avaliable via European sellers as well - and if you shop around a bit rather than just rely on Amazon, you can usually find a good price.