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Kobo should just switch to Amazon's business model where there is a Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.in and give people the freedom to choose where to buy their ebooks. It is a profitable business, each softcopy of the epub costs nothing, the more epubs downloaded, the higher the revenue, even if it is at 90% off. Maybe that is why Kobo did not stop people from "traveling". |
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The only way I can buy eBooks from Amazon CA or UK or elsewhere from the US (besides .com) would be to lie about my location when doing so and even then it doesn't necessarily work. Last edited by AnemicOak; 03-13-2014 at 10:27 PM. |
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My billing address is in Canada and have a Canadian credit card, I can sign-in to Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk to buy books from USA and UK without having to "lie" about my location. The best part about Amazon, despite it is Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, my user id/password for Amazon.ca works on them without the need to create separate user id/password. |
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I just took a look at the prices in Canada and India:
Sycamore Row by John Grisham - Amazon.ca - CAD$13.99 Sycamore Row by John Grisham - Amazon.in - INR350, Sale INR169 INR350 = CAD$6.34 INR169 = CAD$3.06 That's a savings of CAD$10! I can stretch that dollar if I buy in India! |
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When I look at Kindle books in other country sites, instead of the purchase button I see a green box with the following text: Kindle titles are available for CA customers on Amazon.ca. Continue shopping on the Kindle Store at Amazon.ca. (with some slight variations in terminology from country to country) Wait, do you have an amazon.com account from the days before amazon.ca that you didn't change over? Maybe that makes some sort of difference?? But the UK part still seems unusual. Last edited by sqdancer; 03-13-2014 at 11:28 PM. Reason: add last para |
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I can buy from either Amazon.com or Amazon.ca. I'm not sure if Canadians are restricted from buying from Amazon.com, mine was "grandfathered", when I started off, Amazon.ca sells kindle books but not the Kindle device, I bought all my kindle books from Amazon.com. |
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For example Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author. She has sold her Canadian rights to Random House Canada, her US rights to Penguin (Plume) and her UK rights to Orbit (Little, Brown Book Group) so her books are put out in English by three separate publishers with different covers, marketing & pricing (the links above are to her book Bitten on all three sites). Last edited by AnemicOak; 03-13-2014 at 11:44 PM. |
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I buy physical books, DVDs, gadget cases etc from Amazon.ca, Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. I just tested Amazon.co.uk for Kindle books and it said "Kindle titles for your country are not available at Amazon.co.uk. Please shop for Kindle titles at Amazon.com." My Amazon account was for Amazon.ca, my first purchase was at Amazon.ca. When I started buying kindle books, I bought them from Amazon.com. At that time, Amazon.ca has kindle books but not the Kindle device. Currently, I can buy kindle books from either Amazon.com or Amazon.ca. Do you mean to say your Amazon.ca account does not let you buy kindle books from Amazon.com? |
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My first Amazon account was with Amazon.ca, and I purchased many physical books with them over the years. Then ebooks came on the scene, and my first Kindle account was with Amazon.com because .ca didn't sell Kindle books. So from Canada, I used Amazon.com to purchase my Kindle books from my physical location in Canada, and Amazon had my Canadian physical address and credit card info. Then I became a snowbird. Sitting at my U.S. address, I entered that in my Amazon.com account information and changed my country settings to U.S. Lo and behold, some books were cheaper. Then Amazon.ca started up and we Canadians were offered the option of transferring our libraries to Amazon.ca. I chose not to. I wrote to Amazon CS and told them I would be living part of the year in Canada and part of the year in the U.S. I asked if it would be permissible for me to change my country settings at the website according to where I was physically and continue to purchase books from Amazon.com. They said I could change my country as often as I liked. So I do that. I just make sure that when I purchase a book, my country settings are correct, so if there is any checking of my download location, it is clear that I am not misrepresenting my location.
This system now doesn't always serve me, as I have noticed that sometimes e-books from Amazon.com are more expensive when I am in Canada than they are when I am in the U.S. I have also seen instances where the same e-book would be a lower price for me if my library were in Amazon.ca when I am in Canada. However, I am reluctant to change over. I don't know how easy it is to transfer entire libraries repeatedly. BTW, at the current time, my country settings on my Amazon account are set to U.S. When I go to the Kindle page at Amazon.ca, I am told that Amazon.ca is for Canadian customers only. I looked over Amazon.com's terms of service and I don't see any reference to misrepresenting one's geographic location being against their terms. Just to be on the safe side, I only change countries to reflect where I actually am physically. |
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I don't recall if there is anything there or not. I know some folks have been randomly contacted to verify they are where they say they are after chainging locations on occasion, although I haven't heard about it happening recently or often.
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I think once you transfer your Kindle library to Amazon.ca from Amazon.com, you would likely have to purchase your kindle books from Amazon.ca thereafter. I know with my Amazon.com account, I can't buy kindle books from Amazon.ca even when my country settings are set to Canada. (I've tried it, just to see what would happen.)
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I believe your correct. I think that's how it went for UK folks when Amazon UK first started selling ebooks as well.
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Comparison, Stephen King's "Doctor Sleep":
Amazon.com (from my U.S. address): $7.99 USD Amazon.ca (not signed in): $17.99 Cdn Amazon.ca (signed in from my U.S. address): price not available Kobo: $7.99, not sure if that's Cdn or USD. Same whether I'm signed in or not. |
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