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Old 12-19-2009, 09:41 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
Sometimes a publisher thinks they have the right to sell an ebook in a given country, but they don't and it gets withdrawn. Or perhaps it is just a mistake (i.e. it should be available).

In the case of "Stranger in a Strange Land" it is available at almost all US ebook stores, except Amazon. I don't see why B000TO0TDK is "not available for customers from: United States", since ACE is a long standing US publisher and is now part of Penguin Group (USA).
According to C. J. Cherryh's website, that's why her ebooks were pulled down. At some point she and a couple of other writers plan to sale ebooks from their own website. I have no idea why she doesn't just use Amazon.
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