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Old 07-06-2010, 08:39 AM   #83
Urbs
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Originally Posted by thinkpadx View Post
Sorry I should have been more specific. I'm not talking about non english titles or translated versions, I'm talking about the books published in English that gets blocked with geographic restriction. As for promotion, I don't think I ever seen as much as an ad for books written in English here in Norway. The only promotion you see is for the translated versions.

I don't want the publisher or author to decide in which language I can read the book.
Exactly the way I see it. But I think, as mentioned above, that it has to do with them trying to fit in ebooks in the old print publishing model. I gave up on waiting for localized versions of my favourite authors in the early 90's and nowadays prefer to read in english.

Edit - hey you're in Oslo too! Nice to know that I'm not the only Kindle owner here. :-)
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