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Hope of Elantris: International Sales?
« on: April 11, 2008, 05:51:46 PM »
Is it possible for someone in the UK to get a copy of Hope of Elantris? Amazon would not let me buy it due to 'geographical restrictions'.  I'd really like to read it!

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Re: Hope of Elantris: International Sales?
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2008, 06:24:51 AM »
Use the american amazon, I had the same problem in canada, use the american amazon, and it doesn't matter because it's for download, so ya, just try that.
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Re: Hope of Elantris: International Sales?
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2008, 11:59:40 AM »
I did. The book isn't on the British Amazon. I think the US Amazon knows that my account is British (British address, credit card, etc). Is it available anywhere else?

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Re: Hope of Elantris: International Sales?
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2008, 05:59:34 PM »
Ya, I had to make a US account, but the address doesn't matter, because it's just a download, and the credit card thing should work, mine did.  I dunno, just give it a try with a US address and you're credit card, I think that's what I did.
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Re: Hope of Elantris: International Sales?
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2008, 01:25:00 PM »
Don't your countrys have other online bookstores then Amazon?

I find if very disturbing to read these  stories of people who can't order books/games and whatever...

I live in Sweden and I can place an order on Elantris in loads of diffrent onlinebookstores and have it shipped to me in 3-8  days (in english ofcourse) . If I can why can't you?

http://www.adlibris.se/searchresult.aspx?search=quickfirstpage&quickvalue=Elantris&title=Elantris&fromproduct=False

http://www.bokus.com/cgi-bin/book_search.cgi?rewrite=no&FAST_VALUE=GLOBAL&FAST=Elantris&PRODUCT_GROUP=B

Klick here if you want to order from your country http://www.bokus.com/se/help/index.shtml#in_eng

http://www.sfbok.se/asp/artikel.asp?VolumeID=51576



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Re: Hope of Elantris: International Sales?
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2008, 06:19:40 PM »
Ogge, the original poster is talking about the tie-in short story "Hope of Elantris," which was released as an electronic Amazon Short on Amazon.com. It doesn't appear in the main Elantris book.
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Re: Hope of Elantris: International Sales?
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2008, 07:37:08 AM »
Ogge, the original poster is talking about the tie-in short story "Hope of Elantris," which was released as an electronic Amazon Short on Amazon.com. It doesn't appear in the main Elantris book.

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Re: Hope of Elantris: International Sales?
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2008, 09:30:10 PM »
I wrote in here that i could not purchase or order any of Brandons books. The reason is that all (or practically) bookstores get their books from the same place and Brandon has no contract/agreement with that place. First i thought that it was done through the publisher, but as far as i understand Brandon and David Farland share Tor as a publisher and i can get Davids books without any problems.

I can only deduct that the individual writers has to make an agreement with the place my bookstores uses to get their books through...