My mistake for completely trusting something i read here. next time i ll be double checking. lesson learned.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
Watch out when making non digital purchases though that you select the correct address ;-)
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/secret-kindle-fire-north-americ...
tons of hoops to jump to use a Kindle Fire outside the U.S.
I am well aware that the world of international publishing is a convoluted mess (Charles Stross covers it well over on antipope); I'm not sympathetic enough to that mess to be willing to get charged such disparate amounts.
I used a proxy so I looked like I was in the US, registered a new account and it was all fine but it wouldn't let me gift it to a UK Kindle.
Do Kindle books involve local publishers like printed books? (e.g A book published by Penguin in USA and TMG in India has different prices)
Between my Kindle and iPad, I'd really like to never buy a physical book ever again. But then I still have four full book cases from before Kindle existed. I want to "upgrade" to ebooks, but I don't want to spend the money. At $3 each, I'd at least upgrade some of the better ones.
I don't know how or when that would happen, but it would be glorious.
Haven't used them, but it might be worth a shot
You may be able to find a local university willing to do this for non-students.
This is a great find though!
Does anyone involved in print publications know what the cost distribution is on a book's sticker price?
Im in OZ and it's $31.99
Still a steal, but the painful part of this kind of opaque discriminatory pricing is that I would have bought it if it was $6 everywhere, but now I have to start wondering if I'm getting screwed (again( for being in/from "the wrong country".
For those unfamiliar with it, being confronted with the "you're from the wrong country" thing feels really, profoundly wrong and insulting, even if the difference is only 3 dollars.
The sooner the Australian publishing + bookselling industry dies, the sooner a newer, better model can arise from it's twitching corpse.
I have a Kindle connected to my account (My friend didn't) and I have a US address listed (I'm Sri Lankan).
Could be an interesting way to hack around it
Think I've got the physical book somewhere anyway. It's just now that I travel a lot, I like to have the Kindle version as well.
Seth Godin seems to be able to synchronise his deals/giveaways between amazon.com & amazon.co.uk... Shame this wasn't as well.
It took me from "OK I get how to program in Java, but how the heck do I build this cool stuff I see everyday?" to "oh, if I wanted to do that I can see pretty much how I would build it (regardless of language)"
It's a must read.
The material isn't incredibly advanced, so some expert programmers will get less out of it. But I think it's very worthwhile for 90% of programmers.
I would highly recommend this book to most people considering it.
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/software-engineering-an...
Amazon is like the Harvey Two-Face -- half amazing and half frustrating. I have a Kindle Fire in Australia, but as Australia isn't an official country yet, Amazon Market doesn't work. And by doesn't work I mean I can't even download free applications without an American credit card. Amazon support know this and just apologise.
When friends ask me about the Kindle Fire in Australia, I won't say good stuff about it. When it finally is released here, do you think they'll be it? No. They'll remember I said it was annoying for some reason. The reason doesn't matter. Bad is bad so they'll decide, many moons ago, that they're not getting it.
Amazon in Australia are horrible. For many, many reasons[1].
[1]: Amazon Affiliate program pays out by gift certificate or check to Australia -- http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/11/29/an-open-letter...
http://www.amazon.com/The-Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-eb...
One wonders how much the authors' experience publishing with Addison Wesley led to their founding Pragmatic Bookshelf.
They do have a page for the book on their site:
http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/
But the buy link is broken:
http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/titles/tpp
In short, just buy the damn thing from Amazon.
I've used my Kindle everyday for two years. This is the first DRM'd ebook I've ever bought.
http://pragprog.com/titles/tpp
But still, no option to buy.
Thanks OP, great deal and I bought it.
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005endorsementguidesfnnotic...
Go to Your Account > Manage Your Kindle (in the Digital Content section) > Country Settings > Enter any US address and click update
You will now have US pricing. You can go ahead and add different addresses in other countries and you can simply switch between them to take advantage of different pricing, because Amazon remembers your previous addresses. The country you have selected has no effect at all on being able to download the book, you can still download from anywhere.
Some other Kindle book prices dropped in price as well.
I'm purely editorial/product (not project) management - but this looks like it could give me a rounded understanding of best practice.
Those who have read it, would you recommend to someone of my background?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
> Books you purchase from the Kindle Store are eligible for return and refund if we receive your request within seven days of the date of purchase. Once a refund is issued, you'll no longer have access to the book. To request a refund and return, visit Manage Your Kindle, click the actions tab for the title you'd like to return, and select "Return for refund."
As I'm usually the one getting screwed by regional pricing (on steam), I'd be happy to help out.
Just drop me the funds via paypal and I'll gift to your email via amazon.
Email me: jconnop at google's glorious gmail.
So, no luck, we're stuck with 19 euros (which is still a good price though).
I changed the address to a US one, and the purchase went through. One of the positives of living in a border city with multiple shipping addresses, I guess.
It wasn't for his benefit, you understand. He was reluctantly arguing for the price of his novels to be artificially propped up so that other, less successful authors could also be propped up.
No relation, just very satisfied with their results.