Second Second Degree BUMP.
Like - bump-bump sort of bump. Someone post below so I won't feel awkwardly alone, beating this peculiar drum ;P.

SPAM

With or without eggs, bacon and sausage ?

Without, like real men eat it :P

Bump ?

Amazing Halloween bundle. Especially the one with Taking on the dead. My wallet is empty though, so well.

But these book bundles are getting more and more interesting lately. Even though I don't have any ebook readers.

Min price to get the bonus went up to $9 :/

You can always read them from a PC, even though that's tiring to the eyes...
If you're seriously into reading, especially in English, I do recommend you bite the bullet and get an e-reader at some point - they go for as little as 200zł and are handy little things.

The number of books you can get for >=$0.01 went up to 6 ^^. Even at $9 per 8 books it still sounds like a decent deal to me...

I will. Still waiting for Amazon to invade Poland, though. Polish reader and e-book prices are outrageous.
There is $1.00 minimum in both bundles.

The only book that i was interested in was the bonus one by Kevin J Anderson lol.. got the bundle anyways....

I'd have to disagree. For instance - Sony's new e-reader costs about 200zł less than its previous iteration and is withing the budget of a mortal man at a price of 3 Raspberry Pis. Kindle 5 costs 2/3 of that and entry-level devices are available at half ITS price. With the fact that a reader can pretty much be treated as a one-time investement (books don't really get higher system requirements like games do ;P), the cost of books seems to be more of an issue, though it appears to be pretty darn reasonable; for instance - you can get Solaris for 19.90zł (in two formats) while the cheapest paperback version I could find sets you back 18.00zł +/- delivery.
Hell - most books seem to be around 20-30zł.
What bothers me a lot more is the limited selection which, as I've heard, stems from the publishers' distrust of digital distribution and their fear that once a digital copy is available, not a single soul will be willing to buy another one. Sounds familiar, doesn't it ;) ?


Curses, you are correct... Oh well - that is still well within reason. It's the traditional price of a McDonald's hamburger...

All of them cost a lot more than $100 Kindle. And I would buy something around that price, but with excise duty, customs , VAT, shipping, they cost too much for me to ship from the states. I thought about buying it from Amazon.de or Amazon.co.uk, but without Polish language support for books (books in polish language are being removed from Amazon stores), it's still not a great deal to me.

I have nothing against reading in English, but having Polish books on amazon is a must for me to spend 350-400 PLN

Btw. I don't think that selling "Special offer" Kindles in Poland is legal. Special offer is supposed to be USA only, and the rules of exhaustion in copyright or patents do not apply when shipping from outside EU, so Amazon in theory can block all Special offer devices outside USA if they want.

For example, you can't buy a vaccine in Zimbabwe for 1/10 of the EU cost and import it to EU to sell. It applies to all things that are patented and/or have trademark. On the other hand, it seems that Amazon doesn't care. So maybe I'll take a look, thanks!.

Seems quite nice, Though i personally don't like not having the feel of paper in my hands and actually turning the page and feeling the texture and going into another world such as the shire, Sigh i love books.

/facepalm
You know - if need is the mother of invention, I guess demand is the mother of circumvention.
Also - consider the American cliche of having a maverick cop against a slew of people who always want things done "by the book"... and compare that to a movie like "Psy" where the new guy is the only dude who wants to adhere to some nebulous rules instead of sticking with "what works" like everyone else...

It's the EU law, you know. Since Amazon operates in EU, it may block unauthorised third-country (outside EU) import of goods they produce and sell in other countries based on patents or trademark even. (The medicine is the most ocmmon example - many vaccines cost pennies on a dollar in Africa, and allowing importing such meds from Africa to EU would hurt pharmaceutical companies. And than they would have to stop selling medicine in other countries if they wanted to sell in EU).

This is why they don't even have Special offer kindles on amazon.co.uk or amazon.de, because if they were selling them inside EU, they couldn't do anything about it. Because if a product is being sold inside the EU, the rules of exhaustion apply and Amazon can't block it.

If you think about it for a longer while, it makes sense. European companies would be in a very tough position compared to US companies, because as far as I know, US law also forbids parallel import of goods.

It makes sense for Amazon too. Special offers are targeted to US citizens and customers only. This is why they drop the price, because they earn money on advertisement. There's no purpose for them and their clients to advertise outside US.

Well, to be honest, it's not the EU law to say strict. It's the European Court of Justice rullings for over a 20 years know that say you can import and freely sell anything bought inside EU, but not outside EU.

The only reason why they haven't nuked that 3rd party international shipping already, is probably because they have no interest in operating in Poland so far.