Amazon may launch Australian website

[terryc]

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]

Don McKenzie wrote:

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.