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Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by djt on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @11:20PM (#4389760)
PG could you please change the title to reflect its only $2.99 in the US?

Im in OZ and it's $31.99

Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by rickmb on Thursday August 16, 2012 @01:45AM (#4390059)
$5.74 in The Netherlands.

Still a steal, but the painful part of this kind of opaque discriminatory pricing is that I would have bought it if it was $6 everywhere, but now I have to start wondering if I'm getting screwed (again( for being in/from "the wrong country".

For those unfamiliar with it, being confronted with the "you're from the wrong country" thing feels really, profoundly wrong and insulting, even if the difference is only 3 dollars.

Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by jacques_chester on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @11:26PM (#4389769)
I wonder if this is yet another example of Australian readers being shafted by parallel importation laws, so that Tim Winton can make a few extra bucks.
Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by brc on Thursday August 16, 2012 @12:40AM (#4389935)
Tim Winton or his lame publishers?

The sooner the Australian publishing + bookselling industry dies, the sooner a newer, better model can arise from it's twitching corpse.

Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by jacques_chester on Thursday August 16, 2012 @12:53AM (#4389961)
Given that Tim Winton piped up last time abolishing parallel import bans was floated, I'm going to go with ... Tim Winton.

It wasn't for his benefit, you understand. He was reluctantly arguing for the price of his novels to be artificially propped up so that other, less successful authors could also be propped up.

Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by jentulman on Thursday August 16, 2012 @04:13AM (#4390381)
In the uk I'm seeing $24 dollars from .com and £15 from .co.uk
Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by chanux on Thursday August 16, 2012 @12:22AM (#4389896)
I bought 2 copies for $2.99. A friend in .ca told me he sees $31.99. I went there to gift him one. It was $4.99 by then. Gifted it anyway because it's was the best deal I ever had (It's worth the original price but it's a bit too far for me).

I have a Kindle connected to my account (My friend didn't) and I have a US address listed (I'm Sri Lankan).

Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by chad_oliver on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @11:45PM (#4389814)
You should come to NZ: It's 2.99 here.
Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by chollida1 on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @11:58PM (#4389838)
It's currently $31.47 in Canada.
Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by kroger on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @11:33PM (#4389780)
It's not only in the US. I was able to buy it from Brazil.
Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by Dramatize on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @11:58PM (#4389837)
Hmm. Went to click buy but it was still $31.99.
Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by djt on Thursday August 16, 2012 @02:30AM (#4390165)
If it is gifted then does it come from the original gifters price or the giftee?

Could be an interesting way to hack around it

Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by coffeejunk on Thursday August 16, 2012 @03:37AM (#4390309)
Germany: $30.65 in the US Amazon Store and EUR 24,94 in the German Amazon Store
Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by Bro_Merch on Thursday August 16, 2012 @12:45AM (#4389945)
I just bought it for $2.99 in WashingtonDC
Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by ak0s on Thursday August 16, 2012 @12:46AM (#4389950)
It's $4.99 for me (I'm in Russia)