04-08-2011, 09:57 AM | #1 |
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Amazon Drops $2 International Delivery Fee?
It's being reported that the $2 international delivery fee that used to get added to kindle store ebook prices for most international customers has now been dropped.
Checking a reasonably large ebook and a free ebook at Amazon.com, and changing regions reveals some interesting changes. There are now three kinds of charging region. One that doesn't have the extra delivery charge at all. One that only has the delivery charge on non-free ebooks, and one that has the delivery charge on all ebooks. Regions without any delivery charge: United States United Kingdom Australia Canada Europe Regions with $2 on non-free, but free books are $0: Asia and Pacific India Regions with $2 delivery charge on all ebooks: Africa Latin Am. & Caribbean Middle East [EDIT: USA never had the charge, the UK, Australia and Canada had the charge removed earlier. I think the recent change is probably the no charges for all of Europe, and the no charges on free ebooks in Asia & Pacific and India.] Last edited by pdurrant; 04-08-2011 at 10:37 AM. |
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There have been no delivery charges in the UK since early last year.
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04-08-2011, 10:19 AM | #3 |
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I've had a Kindle in Ireland since October and I never got charged for delivery.
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I've never been charged a $2 delivery fee here in Peru, but that may be because I have a legitimate U.S.A. address.
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Hmmm... We've been discussing Amazon prices in the Nook section, and for a specific Kindle edition book discussed there I (in Sweden) see a price of $13.78 while apparently others see $9.99. I checked about a minute ago, and it's still the same for me. Somewhere along the line almost $4 gets added to the price for me...
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Which book? I could check the UK price for you. |
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Asia & Pacific
I'm living in Japan (a part of Asia & Pacific) and using Kindle since last Nov. I've been enjoying a lot of $0.00 books from the beginning, so "free books are $0" change should be before Nov. 2010. I believe I usually pay $2.00 delivery fee for non-free books.
I sometimes (not very often) see non-free books with prices below $1.99, however. An example is a book by famous Amanda Hocking (My Blood Approves, in particular) I bought recently, and it was $0.99 for me. Her other books all appear as $2.99, though. I guess Amazon sometimes waivers delivery fees of some selected books for some reason. |
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When this rolled into Canada a year ago, it took 2 or 3 months to be reflected in all titles. Books by the same author and publisher, which were all $9.99 in the US, were variably $11.99 or $9.99 during the transition. The latest releases reflected the lower prices; gradually the older titles dropped and matched.
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Still $2.30 to my address in Latvia, which is EU
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