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Old 08-20-2009, 07:31 AM   #16
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What licensing conditions are you referring to?
The revenue split and the fact that the customers were regarded as 'belonging' to Amazon rather than the publisher.
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Old 08-21-2009, 12:51 AM   #17
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It's also not easy to purchase e-books at good prices here, so I'd also like to see on-line stores open up sales so as we can buy from them without having to resort to vouchers.
The geographic location of Australia makes a strong case for ebooks. You certainly don't need a local store, and you avoid the ultra costly postage for paper books.
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The geographic location of Australia makes a strong case for ebooks. You certainly don't need a local store, and you avoid the ultra costly postage for paper books.
I'm with you there. One ebook I bought this year was out of stock in print form in Australia for 10 weeks just when I wanted to buy it. It was also 24 AUD when it was finally back in stock compared to GBP 5.99 for the ebook version I was able to get without having to wait 10 weeks.
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Australian publishers are also completely useless when it comes to selling ebooks of their own stuff, so you can take this with a grain of salt or two.
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The geographic location of Australia makes a strong case for ebooks. You certainly don't need a local store, and you avoid the ultra costly postage for paper books.
Bleh, unless one dwells in a printing plant, the geographical location of Everywhere makes a strong case for ebooks.
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