Amazon may launch Australian website

Jan 20, 2012 21 Replies

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.

eBooks by being one of the first to buy

they are released here months after

If I remember it correctly, Australian

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.

Wrong, as always.

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