Amazon may launch Australian website

[Rod Speed]

Don McKenzie wrote

SolomonW wrote

There are work a rounds for kindle.
http://www.labnol.org/gadgets/buy-amazon-kindle-books-magazines-outside-us/4022/

30/07/08
sorry, article is 2.5 years old, and you have been able to get a kindle in oz for a long time now.

The article does tell you how to get the ebooks that
you cant get with your normal amazon account tho.

 

[terryc]

Don McKenzie wrote:

Why would this be? It doesn't make sense.

Because Amazon doesn't have the rights to sell that book in Australia
(yet). If I remember it correctly, Australian Publishers were given 12
months to publish a book here, before it could be directly imported from
overseas. Probably includes electronic rights as well.

 

[Rod Speed]

terryc wrote:

Don McKenzie wrote:

Why is Australia limited to certain eBook publications by Amazon?

My wife was one of the first oz customers to buy books from amazon, and then eBooks by being one of the first to buy
a
kindle when they were offered to Australians.

She has something like 200 books she has purchased for her kindle.

She tells me that she can't get the same books that are offered in the US, or they are released here months after
their US release. "Not available to Australian Customers".

Why would this be? It doesn't make sense.

Because Amazon doesn't have the rights to sell that book in Australia (yet). If I remember it correctly, Australian
Publishers were given 12 months to publish a book here, before it could be directly imported from overseas.

You're wrong, as always.

You are free to import for your own use anything you like and
overseas retaillers are free to sell you anything you want too.

The limitation you utterly mangled, as always, only applys TO LOCAL PUBLISHING.

Probably includes electronic rights as well.

Wrong, as always.