Australians Love Affair with eBooks

[sabredog]

Originally Posted by Onemack

Probably wouldn't be so high if we weren't ripped off price-wise in comparison to other comparable countries, this applies to eBooks, DVD,s electronic hardware etc, etc. And they wonder why Australians are buying on the net from overseas in droves.

I am quite happy to stick to my amazon.com account than pay higher prices for ebooks. The divide is shrinking but not by much.

The issue of geographic restrictions is still a significant problem here as well. Books (both dead tree and digital) movies, TV shows and music are all caught up in this anachronistic and outdated method of distribution.

I have no qualms in buying an item overseas than pay up to triple the price for that same item sold in a shop or online locally or to be able to buy items not available here.

[Onemack]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

A drove's about as many cattle you can get onto the long paddock and not exhaust yourself, horse or dogs.

That is enlightening, I had thought that it was some sort of wheeled charabanc, but I suppose that all charabancs are wheeled, anyway why do they (the mythical they) always leave in droves but arrive by other means?

[Lynx-lynx]

Oh but they definitely do arrive in droves, humans and cattle and sheep!

Think of a B&S Ball, or cattle and sheep arriving at the sales yards/docks.

I refer to 'drove' as my great grandfathers and their fathers etc did (as drovers), when some of them drove many many head of cattle from Texas on the Qld/NSW border down to the sales yards in Melbourne.

However there are no doubt other interpretations.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Onemack

anyway why do they (the mythical they)

Awesome Far Side cartoon, by the way!

so you're the "they" in "that's what they say"!

(guy sitting in a basement surrounded by phones, labeled "them", "us", etc.)