{"id":1896,"date":"2012-03-11T19:33:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T08:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2012-03-11T19:38:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T08:38:02","slug":"how-to-buy-my-books-if-you-dont-live-in-australia-or-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/how-to-buy-my-books-if-you-dont-live-in-australia-or-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Buy My Books If You Don’t Live In Australia Or New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few North American readers have asked me how they can buy the Australian editions of my books, so here’s a list of some on-line booksellers who stock my books and deliver to overseas addresses. <\/p>\n

A few notes: Due to territorial copyright laws, my Australian e-books aren’t available to readers outside Australia and New Zealand. Also, postage is very expensive in Australia, so ordering books from here isn’t cheap. On the bright side, non-Australian readers don’t have to pay the 10% sales tax that Australians do, so instead of paying the Recommended Retail Price of $18.95, you only have to pay about $17.00 (and most booksellers offer discounted prices as well). All prices below are in Australian dollars, and at the time I wrote this, one Australian dollar was worth about $US1.06. The FitzOsbornes at War<\/em> goes on sale here on the 2nd of April, so the books probably won’t be in stock yet, but many of the booksellers below welcome pre-orders.<\/p>\n

Abbey’s Bookshop<\/a> charges<\/a> $15 delivery for one book (and an additional $10 for each extra book) for delivery to North America, with slightly higher charges for deliveries to Europe. I’ve never ordered books from them, but Abbey’s is a reputable, long-established Sydney bookshop.<\/p>\n

Gleebooks<\/a> charges<\/a> $10 for a parcel of less than 500g, and $18 for a parcel of up to 1kg, for anywhere outside Australia. I actually weighed The FitzOsbornes at War<\/em> (guys, the things I do for you!)<\/p>\n

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and it is slightly less than 400g, so even with packaging, delivery should only cost $10. However, that’s for an untracked parcel \u2013 you’ll need to contact Gleebooks for a quote if you want a tracked delivery service. As with Abbey’s, Gleebooks is a reputable and long-established local bookseller, but I haven’t ordered any books from them.<\/p>\n

Readings<\/a> charges<\/a> “2 x weight (A 400g package will cost $AUS8) with a minimum freight cost of $AU7.95” for deliveries to North America and Europe, so I guess delivery of one book would cost about $10, similar to Gleebooks. I know nothing about Readings except that they’re in Melbourne and they were “Independent Bookseller of the Year” in 2010.<\/p>\n

Fishpond<\/a> charges<\/a> a delivery fee of “$11.68 + $3.86 per item” to North America (which I think means that delivery of one book costs $15.54) with slightly higher charges for delivery to Europe. I hadn’t heard of Fishpond until recently, and when I tried to find out more, I came across some unhappy customers<\/a>. Has anyone else had any experience with Fishpond?<\/p>\n

Shearer’s Bookshop<\/a> charges<\/a> $26 for delivery of one book to North America, with an additional $8 for each extra book. As with Abbey’s and Gleebooks, Shearer’s is a reputable local bookseller, but I haven’t ordered any books from them.<\/p>\n

Booktopia<\/a> charges<\/a> $27.50 delivery for one book (and an additional $7.50 for each extra book) for delivery to North America, with slightly higher charges for deliveries to Europe. I have ordered books from them before and the books arrived promptly, in good condition \u2013 however, I live in the same city as their warehouse, so I can’t say how reliable or prompt their overseas service is.<\/p>\n

The Book Depository<\/a> delivers free<\/a> to pretty much anywhere in the world. However, it’s a UK company and my books are not actually published in the UK, so they have to order my books from Australia, then send them to you, so it might take a while. Still, free delivery! (How do they actually make any money?)<\/p>\n

There are lots of other booksellers in Australia, but I haven’t listed them because their delivery charges are so high (for example, Kinokuniya charges<\/a> FIFTY DOLLARS to send one little book to the US). If anyone has any other bookseller recommendations, please feel free to add them to the comments below.<\/p>\n

Of course, if you live in North America, you can buy the paperback edition<\/a> of The FitzOsbornes in Exile<\/em>, which comes out this week, simply by walking into a bookshop and handing over a ten dollar bill and a few coins. So easy!<\/p>\n

STOP PRESS: The cover of the North American edition of The FitzOsbornes at War<\/em> has just been revealed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few North American readers have asked me how they can buy the Australian editions of my books, so here’s a list of some on-line booksellers who stock my books and deliver to overseas addresses. A few notes: Due to territorial copyright laws, my Australian e-books aren’t available to readers outside Australia and New Zealand. … Continue reading How To Buy My Books If You Don’t Live In Australia Or New Zealand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-the-montmaray-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}