Morning
Sian, I'm glad you managed to buy something. I thought the internet was supposed to make it easier to do that!
Okay. Rant warning.
This infuriates me. I understand delayed release dates in terms of real, physical product. Shipping takes time. Distribution takes time. You have to pay shipping companies, thus the higher price.
But when I go online, and am told I can not buy the electronic version of a book, when I can walk down the street and get the physical version, it pisses me off. It's an ebook. It's already here. There's not logical reason to prevent my purchase of it.
The Australian version of electronic goods being more expensive also pisses me off. For the past two years the AUS dollar has actually been higher than the US dollar. We're at something like 1.04 atm. Logically, that means that I should not be paying 5 dollars more for copyrighted data. I should probably be paying less.
And my brother should not be paying at 75% mark-up on games that he downloads for his xbox.
It really annoys me when I'm trying to pay someone, and trying to give a company money, and they refuse to take it. Or they mark something up ridiculously high for the privilege.
This isn't something I've seen in any of the cantinaites books, but it does happen with things like this writing book, and a lot of the more well-known fantasy and sci-fi titles out there.
Okay. /end rant.