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[curtw]

Originally Posted by Kaysclie

I have been wondering for a long time....how does one go about getting an address to buy ebooks from the UK?

I use colisexpat.com. For 0.90 Euros a year, I get the equivalent of PO Boxes in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany.

Of course, the site's main function is to act as a re-shipper, so when I search for books world-wide, and find a vendor who won't ship to the USA, there's usually *some* EU country that they will ship to. For varying fees (typically about $60 a book), the book will come to me in a few extra days via DHL.

Works great for Ebay as well.

Edited to add: Their employees know and use USHTS codes, so all of the books I bought in 2025 arrived Tariff-free.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Kaysclie

I have been wondering for a long time....how does one go about getting an address to buy ebooks from the UK?

You don't need an address for Kobo for UK or Ireland, just the country. The USA needs a ZIP code because of varying sale tax rates.

Amazon is more complicated.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by Quoth

You don't need an address for Kobo for UK or Ireland, just the country. The USA needs a ZIP code because of varying sale tax rates.

Amazon is more complicated.

Pick a state without a sales tax. Texas, Florida or Oregon for example.
Apache

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Apache

Pick a state without a sales tax. Texas, Florida or Oregon for example.
Apache

I pick Alaska, which is second on the drop-down list, and the topmost option that doesn't have a sales tax.

[curtw]

Originally Posted by Apache

Pick a state without a sales tax. Texas, Florida or Oregon for example.
Apache

Oh, Texas has a sales tax. The Governor is stitting on billions of dollars in internet-collected sales tax, and still refuses to fund public education adequately.

We just don't have an income tax. Maybe that's your mix-up?

[Apache]

Originally Posted by curtw

Oh, Texas has a sales tax. The Governor is stitting on billions of dollars in internet-collected sales tax, and still refuses to fund public education adequately.

We just don't have an income tax. Maybe that's your mix-up?

Yep, correct. I got mixed up which is embarrassing since my wife is from Houston and I lived in Texas for a number of years.
Apache

[sufue]

I have read almost all of Emma Jameson's Blue/Lord and Lady Hetheridge series, and a couple of the books in her Jemima Jago series, and have liked them all, and liked most of them a lot. And the first two books in her Benjamin Bones series are listed at SYKM, which tends to be a pretty good recommendation of professionalism. But I haven't read any of the books in the Bones series myself. So if you want to skip the rest of this post, please do. Otherwise...three of the four books in the Bones series are either free or on sale in the US and UK.

Bones in the Blackout, #1, apa Marriage Can Be Murder
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P5OCS10
Kobo US, $0.99, discountable: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bones-in-the-blackout
Kindle UK, £0.77: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00P5OCS10
Kobo UK, £0.74, discountable: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/bones-in-the-blackout

Bones at the Manor House, #2, apa Divorce Can Be Deadly
Kindle US, free: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MRYLCGV
Kobo US, free: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bon...he-manor-house
Kindle UK: not on sale
Kobo UK, free: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/bon...he-manor-house

Bones Buried Deep, #4
Kindle US, $0.99: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1JV1R45
Kobo US, $0.99, discountable: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bones-buried-deep
Kindle UK, £0.77: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D1JV1R45
Kobo UK, £0.99, discountable: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/bones-buried-deep

[sufue]

Now £0.99 in the UK...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B098Q6CY5F
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/something-to-hide-15?

Originally Posted by sufue

Something to Hide is the twenty-first and most recent (2022) in Elizabeth George's Lynley/Havers series. It's $1.99 in the US right now.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09284JLRF
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09284JLRF
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/something-to-hide-13

{edited other book}

[sufue]

Simon Brett is now on his umpteenth new series - this time, the Major Bricket series, whose webpage describes said Major as "[a] not-so-amateur sleuth from a peaceful English village with an alarmingly high death rate". Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse is the first, and so far, only, title in the series and it's on sale at Kindle UK for £0.99. It's not yet on sale at Kobo UK, but probably will be, since most of the Kindle UK Daily Deal titles get price matched at Kobo UK sometime during the day. Or you can probably price-match it.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D8SRTBZD
Kobo UK (for price check/match): https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/maj...-circus-corpse

Spoiler:

Meet Major Bricket, an infrequent resident of Highfield House in Stunston Peveril, Suffolk. In the past the Major's work assignments, frequently in foreign countries, have prevented him from spending much time there and a result, there is an air of mystery around him while everyone in the village speculates on the nature of his occupation.

But now the Major has retired and has come home for good in his open-topped little red sports car... and what a homecoming it is, for lying spreadeagled on his lawn in the summer sunshine is the corpse of a clown.
The circus is in Stunston Peveril for the annual village fair, yet none of their quota of clowns is missing - or at least, nobody is saying. Could the body be that of an unfortunate early guest at the village's highlight of the social calendar, the Fincham Abbey Costume Ball?

Fortunately Major Bricket's past clandestine career means that he is now very well placed to solve the mystery of the dead clown on his camomile lawn . . .