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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2012-09-07 04:13 pm

Does anyone here know

If Amazon UK ships to Canada?

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2012-09-07 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't know they shipped to the US.

[identity profile] heron61.livejournal.com 2012-09-07 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
They do indeed, I've ordered from them many time, and will be doing so again soon for a copy of The Fractal Prince.

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2012-09-07 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
How are the shipping costs and the times?

[identity profile] heron61.livejournal.com 2012-09-07 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Shipping costs are about twice US Amazon, and times are between one and two weeks.

[identity profile] sean o'hara (from livejournal.com) 2012-09-08 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
When I ordered Blue Remembered Earth, the total cost including shipping was only about two bucks more than if I'd bought it on Amazon.com and it took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic (which still put it three months ahead of the American publication).

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2012-09-08 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Would it have been more cost effective to get the British edition from a Canadian source?

The problem with the book I am looking for is it is British, cannot survive translation into American [1] and is not imported into Canada for some reason.

1: It's a cook book. Apparently the standard for conversions from weight-based recipes as used in the UK to volume-based as used in the US is of the "nobody really cooks; they're buying the name on the spine, not the recipes themselves" level.

[identity profile] ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com 2012-09-08 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
They do, mostly, but you'll often find exceptions with sellers selling through the Marketplace section. In one case, I wanted the item so much, I e-mailed the seller and asked if he'd be willing to ship to the USA, and he made an exception; I was surprised.