It took me a while, on returning to Australia, to really believe that Amazon didn’t have an Australian version. I’d got quite used to buying books from Amazon.de and had really enjoyed their fast delivery (and free – no postage was charged if you bought books. Even just one cheap book!).
I don’t know the reason why Amazon doesn’t have an Australian branch – can anybody enlighten me? – but I’m now trying out Fishpond which claims to be Australia’s biggest online bookstore.
They’re obviously trying to build up their site because …