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[maddz]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen by Michael Moorcock is $1 on Amazon.com)
AFAICT, this particular edition is not available on Kobo.

The Gateway edition is £2.99 on Kobo UK (discounted from £4.99):

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/glo...ulfill-d-queen

Which isn't a bad price, but then I paid £1.25 for the 1978 edition paperback. (At a guess, it was purchased new in the early '80s when I lived in London.)

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen by Michael Moorcock is $1 on Amazon.com)
AFAICT, this particular edition is not available on Kobo.

I was curious about this, too. Then I noticed on Amazon that it's available on Kindle Unlimited. I'm willing to bet that's our problem right there.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I was curious about this, too. Then I noticed on Amazon that it's available on Kindle Unlimited. I'm willing to bet that's our problem right there.

I thought so too. But Moorcock is a big enough author I wouldn't think he would be locked in to exclusivity. And Saga Press is an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I thought so too. But Moorcock is a big enough author I wouldn't think he would be locked in to exclusivity. And Saga Press is an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

I don't know how much Gloriana is selling these days, given that it was published in '78. Maybe someone presented him the estimate of getting so much $$$ a month based on number of people likely to read it in KU, and he decided that sounded better than the amount it was currently generating via standalone sales.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I was curious about this, too. Then I noticed on Amazon that it's available on Kindle Unlimited. I'm willing to bet that's our problem right there.

It's not KU on UK Marketplace, and there it's a higher price than Kobo.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gloriana-Un...dp/B00QFLKNHI/ £3.42
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gateway (22 Dec. 2014)

Edit:
Maybe not. It's €3.99 on Kobo Ireland (and Kobo travelling seems to have stopped working). They seem to be the only place not offering the SAME titles on UK and Ireland!
https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/glo...ulfill-d-queen

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

It's not KU on UK Marketplace, and there it's a higher price than Kobo.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gloriana-Un...dp/B00QFLKNHI/ £3.42
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gateway (22 Dec. 2014)

Edit:
Maybe not. It's €3.99 on Kobo Ireland (and Kobo travelling seems to have stopped working). They seem to be the only place not offering the SAME titles on UK and Ireland!
https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/glo...ulfill-d-queen

Using Kobo airlines I was able to travel to India to buy an eBook on April 3, 2024. NO problem buying the eBook.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Using Kobo airlines I was able to travel to India to buy an eBook on April 3, 2024. NO problem buying the eBook.

I've noticed I very rarely use the Kobo travel agency, even for a really good deal. The only books I tend to travel for are those that are completely unavailable here in 'Murica.