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Vanishing Acts (posted earlier) is a new release, and affected by the KFX change.
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Tales of Old Earth By Michael Swanwick $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Scifi. 19 short stories, many are Hugo winners or nominees |
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Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton is $2.99 at Amazon US.
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01-28-2023, 09:04 PM | #6635 | |
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Okay, let's try somewhere else. "Not available for sale." Well, third time's the charm, right? "Sorry, this product is not available in your region." Fourth time? "This item is only available to U.S. billing addresses." *Grumble*. Other retailers, including my usual haunts, don't even tell you that much; they just can't find anything that matches the ISBN or other identifying number. No wonder I didn't know the ebook existed. A search for title and author on this region's site of a globally well-known webshop yields only one result, a used paperback available from third-party sellers for about $45 (+ $5 shipping) or $115, though the one offering it for $115 wouldn't deliver it to my address even if I were fool enough to want him to. This is one thing about ebooks that I find aggravating. You can buy a printed copy of a book (as far as such a thing exists) and they'll ship it practically anywhere on earth (some third-party sellers excepted), but when it comes to ebooks, the World Wide Web shrivels to the Provincial Wide Web. Now, a plain Schmo who's not in the trade might assume that the publisher, the retailer, and especially the author would like to sell as many copies of the ebook as possible, no matter where or to whom, but that probably just demonstrates the poor benighted Schmo's lack of industry savvy. I don't expect that special deals in one region will necessarily be offered in others, but I do expect that the ebook will at least be available for purchase (which it almost always is), even if at a different price. I gather that there are ways to circumvent these geographical restrictions, but I'm not very adventurous, and I don't want to have to jump through hoops to do business with somebody. So I suppose I'll just do what I've done in the past when encountering this issue: I'll do without. |
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And/Or for $1.00 more you can get a 527-page book of stories: The Best of Michael Swanwick. https://www.amazon.com/Best-Michael-...s%2C162&sr=8-1 |
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Amazon here has three of his novels and a bunch of Tor.com Originals, mainly The Mongolian Wizard series, which appear to be individual short stories, in Kindle versions. One retailer I've never bought from has a collection called Not So Much, Said the Cat, which my Amazon doesn't offer for Kindle. |
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Subterranean Press ebooks are always region-restricted to the US. You can get past that by changing your address on Amazon.com, but it has some consequences regarding access to your old purchases that you might not like.
You can also try buying it directly from the publisher, but you will probably need to change your IP to somewhere in the US. https://subterraneanpress.com/best-o...wanwick-ebook/ |
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It appears that Open Road Media, the publisher of the ebook mentioned in the first post of this thread I responded to, Swanwick's Tales of Old Earth, doesn't have a regional restriction on everything. I picked another book at random on their website, Shards of Space by Robert Sheckley, and that is available here. I suppose it's a matter of the rights they hold, or whatever. Last edited by SomeSteve; 01-29-2023 at 12:42 PM. Reason: Imprecise or misleading reference |
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I am the opposite of you. I live in the US and occasionally purchase from Kobo UK because a book is not available here. In your Kobo account, just blank out your payment info and when checking out it will offer to let you pay via PayPal. (For all I know, Kobo may not even care if you buy US books with a UK credit card. I've just always left my payment info blank for the PayPal option at the end of checkout. Last edited by ZodWallop; 01-29-2023 at 02:35 PM. |
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The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers is $1.99 at Amazon US.
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