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4. Redirected to the UK, book not found 5. Redirected to the UK, found The Impossible Fortune 6. Redirected to the UK, found The Black Wolves of Boston |
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Yesterday, 09:25 PM
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I'm located in Australia. I've made a couple of physical book purchases from Amazon AU, but no ebooks, and no books at all from Amazon US. Just in case purchase history somehow factors!
1. Book found, no redirect. 2. Book found, redirected to Amazon AU. 3. Book found, no redirect. 4. Book found, no redirect. 5. Book not found, no redirect. 6. Book found, no redirect. |
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Today, 01:59 AM
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That’s a good observation. I’ve also noticed regional redirects on Amazon causing books to disappear or show different versions depending on location. It seems tied to licensing limits for each market.
You might find www.fzstudios.co.za interesting — they cover creative production topics that relate well to global content access. Has anyone found a reliable workaround for these redirect issues? |
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Today, 02:19 AM
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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So it's commonly the case that an author will have two publishers, one in each market. And so two ebooks, or one in one market and none in another. By using an ISBN in the Amazon link, the book search is for a particular publisher's ebook, not a search for the book by title and author. The redirect is useful for those cases where the publisher has world rights, or where a country has its own Kindle store, and books can't be bought from amazon.com. It does look like redirects only happen when there's a tag in the URL. "Luckily", any Amazon URL put on MobileRead will automatically get the MR tag added to it. CONCLUSION Using the ISBN is the best way to specify links on MobileRead in the Bargains threads, since discounts on ebooks are almost always publisher-specific, and it's the best way to take people to their own Kindle store. |
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Today, 01:16 PM
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I'm in Portugal, mostly served by Spanish Amazon, except that for Kindle books I'm usually sent over to US Amazon (that also applies trying to buy from UK Amazon). Paper books I can buy from Spain or UK, or whatever.
My results are: Redirects to amazon.es, book not found Redirects to amazon.es, book found, cannot buy it Redirects to amazon.es, book found, cannot buy it No redirect, amazon.com, book not found No redirect, amazon.com, book found, can buy No redirect, amazon.com, book found, can buy |
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