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Hi SparrowsFoot,
I suspect that what you're finding at Kobo/Borders in Aus is the same as what I have found at Whitcoulls in NZ (they're all owned by the same company).
They are advertising 'over 2 million books'. This is crap.
Currently (as of Sunday), through the Whitcoulls they had about 50,000 books available. (Just a note here ... I'm a bit of a geek, and I added up the totals in all categories in the Whitcoulls app for PC - came to about 51,000.) I got suspicious when they only had 2000 books (total) in their SF/Fantasy category, and only 683 in the Fantasy sub-section. Hell, I've probably got that many fantasy books at home! Maybe they're planning to have that many eventually, but they haven't got there yet. I read somewhere (on this site) that they currently only have books from Penguin and Random House.
I suspect that if you were annoyed enough you could complain to Australia's advertising standards board (or whatever it's called) about the false advertising.
That said, however, this doesn't limit the range of books that you can buy. My personal favourite is BooksOnBoard where there is a large selection, and prices are generally good, but there are some books that they won't sell to us in NZ/Aus. Alternatively you can look at Waterstones in the UK (but prices are generally higher) and there are still some restrictions. There are methods to get around geographic restrictions if you want to ...
Hope this helps,
Karen
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