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Originally Posted by toholio
All I wanted from Australian publishers was some indication that they will be bringing their books to the Kindle. Anything would have been good. A short "We're looking into it" to keep me happy.
Instead we've had some press releases about a terrible idea for in store downloading kiosks that will be available sometime next year.
Not enough guys...
So I've changed my Kindle billing address to Disneyland. Suddenly the books I want are available to me. I suppose I should feel slightly guilty but I don't. The author is getting paid and so is the same publisher as if Amazon had sent me a paper book.
Should I feel guilty? Does anyone have the vaguest hint as to what Australian publishers are doing?
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No idea what the publishers are doing here toholio, but it is not good enough. I have written to a couple of Australian publishers and got a response indicating that they have no intention of releasing e-book versions of their books. I find this to be really a sad state of affairs as it means that I will not be reading much work produced by local writers. Ah well there is plenty of other material for me to read. On the other hand, one of the things I have noticed about the Amazon store as I wait for my Kindle to land. I have bought all of Barbara Erskine's books through the Australian store front, but when I change to a US address, they are not available. This may mean we needed to juggle back and forth a little depending on what we want.