I do find it frustrating when the ebooks are avaible only for the Kindle. An author I was reading just announced she was pulling her books off BN.com because it was more profitable to be on Kindle exclusively.

Once you add in shipping Amazon’s surprisingly cheaper than Book Depository (or was with the last few books I bought from the UK).I haven’t run into any that couldn’t be sold outside the country yet.

I’m not seeing that books on Amazon.co.uk are cheaper with shipping. I just checked their prices and the cost is £2.99 per book and £3.99 per delivery. Plus the cost of the book.

I’m in the UK and I read review blog from different places, many from the US, and many author blogs too. I’ll get it excited when I see a book mentioned and deflated when I realise I can’t get it here. That’s particularly annoying when I’m avoiding the reviews in case they give too much away but can see a multitude of them! And it’s maddening when it’s a digital release – if it’s been digitised and is on Amazon.com, why isn’t it on Amazon.co.uk?? Unlike some people I’ve seen positing, Amazon prevents me from buying from .com.

And another aspect of the globalisation of review and author sites but apparent non-globalisationof publishing is that there will be bargains listed in a US site or on Goodreads which aren’t replicated for English buyers – even when the publisher is the same!

Publishers do seem to want their cake and eat it too – they expect their authors to do their own marketing using the Internet, and provide ARCs for review sites, but won’t accept that by their nature these are read worldwide and build up expectation and desire worldwide which they are not prepared to satisfy.

With regards to international authors (and slightly off-topic), I find there are lots of non-US authors masquerading as American ones, for whatever reason, or who aren’t immediately apparent, mostly because a) they’ve hit the big time with a NY publisher, or b) they write for Harlequin/Mills & Boon, and therefore get distribution on either side of either ocean. In the latter category I’d put Karina Bliss and a whole other host of HQ writers. In the former:

Canada – Donna Lea Simpson, Kelley Armstrong, Mary Balogh, Susan Lyons, Kayla Perrin, Vanessa Kelly, Julianne MacLean, Tiffany Clare, Claire Cross/Delacroix, Eve Silver/Kenin, Molly O’Keefe (yup, she’s Canuck – or now she is).

Australia – Anna Campbell, Anne Gracie, Stephanie Laurens, Elizabeth Rolls, Keri Arthur.

New Zealand – Nalini Singh and Karina Bliss, as mentioned.

I agree that eBooks will change that, if only because you can self publish and cross all pesky distribution rights issues that way.

Or you could do it the E. L. James way, and write a story set in Seattle with UK PROSE. Best of both worlds, apparently.