It says the UK Amazon doesn’t ship to Germany [at least for the auto-generated listing], and from the US it’d be ~$45 incl. shipping + taxes… =/
And since it’s above the magic number of 1kg (around 1.2kg), even a bulk order with local distribution would have to add about €5 for the last leg of shipping, which (adding packaging etc.) makes that just not worth it.
Since Amazon UK is happy to ship other books, I subscribed to the UK availability notification—maybe it’ll work once it’s “really” there. I’ll update this once the notification comes and I have time to check.
(If that doesn’t fix it: If it were available at some endpoint within the EU, Amazon’s shipping would probably be around €6 (based on looking at comparable book boxes from ES or FR.) So if UK refuses to ship and it’s not too terrible (or would add extra costs that make it useless), then I’d appreciate having some EU endpoint next year again… but first let’s see what’ll happen.)
Update: Amazon Germany now also has the books listed, for €36 (which is fine.) Since I haven’t received the “Notify me when the UK books are available” mail yet, I assume this is further downstream propagation from the Amazon US listing.
If that is accurate, then there should be no need at all to manually ship books to other regions?! I guess that’s very good news for future books!
Thanks for writing this; I didn’t even think to check Amazon Germany since it wasn’t listed here.
That said, a quick search for Engines of Cognition on some websites that purportedly compare product prices on all Amazon EU stores did only list prices for UK and DE. Since the product is imported from the US in either case, and the non-US store pages were not created manually, I don’t really understand why it wouldn’t be offered on all Amazon storefronts.
EDIT: Apparently the product is available on Amazon DE (though probably only within Germany) for “free worldwide shipping” from the US: the checkout page lists a shipping fee of 11.14€, which it then discounts to zero. This is the same procedure they use for nationwide free shipping, which is nominally priced at 3~4€ IIRC.
It says the UK Amazon doesn’t ship to Germany [at least for the auto-generated listing], and from the US it’d be ~$45 incl. shipping + taxes… =/
And since it’s above the magic number of 1kg (around 1.2kg), even a bulk order with local distribution would have to add about €5 for the last leg of shipping, which (adding packaging etc.) makes that just not worth it.
Since Amazon UK is happy to ship other books, I subscribed to the UK availability notification—maybe it’ll work once it’s “really” there. I’ll update this once the notification comes and I have time to check.
(If that doesn’t fix it: If it were available at some endpoint within the EU, Amazon’s shipping would probably be around €6 (based on looking at comparable book boxes from ES or FR.) So if UK refuses to ship and it’s not too terrible (or would add extra costs that make it useless), then I’d appreciate having some EU endpoint next year again… but first let’s see what’ll happen.)
Update: Amazon Germany now also has the books listed, for €36 (which is fine.) Since I haven’t received the “Notify me when the UK books are available” mail yet, I assume this is further downstream propagation from the Amazon US listing.
If that is accurate, then there should be no need at all to manually ship books to other regions?! I guess that’s very good news for future books!
Indeed the books are not yet in-stock in Amazon UK.
Thanks for writing this; I didn’t even think to check Amazon Germany since it wasn’t listed here.
That said, a quick search for Engines of Cognition on some websites that purportedly compare product prices on all Amazon EU stores did only list prices for UK and DE. Since the product is imported from the US in either case, and the non-US store pages were not created manually, I don’t really understand why it wouldn’t be offered on all Amazon storefronts.
EDIT: Apparently the product is available on Amazon DE (though probably only within Germany) for “free worldwide shipping” from the US: the checkout page lists a shipping fee of 11.14€, which it then discounts to zero. This is the same procedure they use for nationwide free shipping, which is nominally priced at 3~4€ IIRC.