I've bought books form Amazon.com that weren't available at amazon.ca without any problems, but I don't know if there were publishing issues or just availability issues. I know people that have successfully bought books from Amazon.co.uk (to ship to Canada) specifically because they were released in the UK earlier.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Sue - Feb 01, 2010 4:33:39 pm PST #10916 of 28358
hip deep in pie
Sue - Feb 01, 2010 4:40:55 pm PST #10917 of 28358
hip deep in pie
Steph, did you actually place the order before you got the message?
Steph L. - Feb 01, 2010 5:41:26 pm PST #10918 of 28358
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Steph, did you actually place the order before you got the message?
Last year, yes. Although when I placed the order, there was already a US release date scheduled. As of now, there is a UK/Australia date scheduled, but no US date actually scheduled -- just confirmation that it will be released at some point.
Sue - Feb 01, 2010 5:53:59 pm PST #10919 of 28358
hip deep in pie
I tried to put it in my shopping cart at .co.uk and it was okay, because .com usually tells me when I add something if it can't be shipped to Canada. But if it let you order it last year, maybe that won't work.
beth b - Feb 01, 2010 7:15:14 pm PST #10920 of 28358
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
One of my friends buys stuff from amazonUK fairly often, but it is stuff that isn't published here. ( She is English) Of course, her CC stops her card all the time because the charge goes thru Lithuania.
Typo Boy - Feb 01, 2010 7:32:41 pm PST #10921 of 28358
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I do know I bought the British edition of Monbiot's "Heat" from Amazon Canada before the U.S. edition was out. Don't know if that would work for fiction.
Amy - Feb 02, 2010 6:04:03 am PST #10922 of 28358
Because books.
Ginger - Feb 02, 2010 6:59:58 pm PST #10923 of 28358
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm now having a crisis of conscience. I dislike the way Amazon has behaved. I want Connie Willis' new book in my hands right this minute. Amazon is significantly cheaper than anyone except *shudder* Walmart, if the local store has it in stock.
Barb - Feb 02, 2010 7:16:43 pm PST #10924 of 28358
“Not dead yet!”
Ginger, Barnes and Noble is currently offering Blackout at the member price ($15.21) which is the same as Amazon's price, to everyone.
Ginger - Feb 02, 2010 8:14:01 pm PST #10925 of 28358
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Thanks, Barb! I had not only forgotten about B&N, but until you mentioned it, I had also forgotten about a Christmas gift card. Willis is on the very short list of authors whose books I buy new in hardback.