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Um, this is not good news for me then! I remember that when I found out that "La Mossa del Diavolo (Adrien English #3) was on Amazon.com it wasn't still available for purchase, but Amazon gave me a date and I could pre-order it. It's not happening with the others now... :/
"Sulle Note del Tempo" looks like it might be print-only, and it's still in the process of being produced. (http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/n...) That, or they've pushed back the official release date for some reason and haven't bothered to let any retailers know -- maybe they don't have an estimate for when it will actually be out? That might explain why there's no listing on any Amazon site.
Ebooks of the the other two you mentioned are in fact available on Amazon.com: Facile bersaglio (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NYFGMXW/), Gioco sporco (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XKFGVEQ/). You can only find them by locating them on Amazon.it and then switching the ".it" to ".com" in the address bar on your browser; they don't show up in search results on Amazon.com on their own. That's also a common thing for non-English editions on Amazon.com, or editions of a book published by a non-US company. If I were you, I'd keep checking Amazon.it to see if Sulle Note del Tempo pops up there, and then use that to check if the listing has popped up on Amazon.com.
Finally, a lot of translated books -- ebooks especially -- are only available on Amazon from one particular Amazon store, not from Amazon.com (which is available to pretty much everyone in the world, I think). So unless you live in or very near the locality of the Amazon store in question, you're not allowed to purchase those ebooks. (They enforce this by insisting on a credit card or linked bank account from the country whose site you're attempting to use, since "living in" is difficult to check.) Digital content has weird licencing rules that print books do not. Your best bet may in fact be to track down the person translating Josh's works -- hopefully the Italian translations are all being done by the same person, although not all of them bother listing the translator, so who knows -- and asking if there's a possibility of making the translations not available on Amazon.com available. If, of course, you're looking for the ebooks and not the print books.
I hope this was of some use!
Zuzi, hi! Ikr?!? LOL
But, the thing is, I want/need to practice my italian and readind MM is just my perfect excuse to kill two birds with one shot... (not that I'd ever kill a bird, really) You see, fun and duty at the same time ;-)
Tribblemaker, thanks!
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Um, this is not good news for me then! I remember that when I found out that "La Mossa del Diavolo (Adrien English #3) was on Amazon.com it wasn't still available for purchase, but Amazon gave me a date and I could pre-order it. It's not happening with the others now... :/
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"Sulle Note del Tempo" looks like it might be print-only, and it's still in the process of being produced. (http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/n...) That, or they've pushed back the official release date for some reason and haven't bothered to let any retailers know -- maybe they don't have an estimate for when it will actually be out? That might explain why there's no listing on any Amazon site.Ebooks of the the other two you mentioned are in fact available on Amazon.com: Facile bersaglio (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NYFGMXW/), Gioco sporco (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XKFGVEQ/). You can only find them by locating them on Amazon.it and then switching the ".it" to ".com" in the address bar on your browser; they don't show up in search results on Amazon.com on their own. That's also a common thing for non-English editions on Amazon.com, or editions of a book published by a non-US company. If I were you, I'd keep checking Amazon.it to see if Sulle Note del Tempo pops up there, and then use that to check if the listing has popped up on Amazon.com.
Finally, a lot of translated books -- ebooks especially -- are only available on Amazon from one particular Amazon store, not from Amazon.com (which is available to pretty much everyone in the world, I think). So unless you live in or very near the locality of the Amazon store in question, you're not allowed to purchase those ebooks. (They enforce this by insisting on a credit card or linked bank account from the country whose site you're attempting to use, since "living in" is difficult to check.) Digital content has weird licencing rules that print books do not. Your best bet may in fact be to track down the person translating Josh's works -- hopefully the Italian translations are all being done by the same person, although not all of them bother listing the translator, so who knows -- and asking if there's a possibility of making the translations not available on Amazon.com available. If, of course, you're looking for the ebooks and not the print books.
I hope this was of some use!
Zuzi, hi! Ikr?!? LOLBut, the thing is, I want/need to practice my italian and readind MM is just my perfect excuse to kill two birds with one shot... (not that I'd ever kill a bird, really) You see, fun and duty at the same time ;-)
Tribblemaker, thanks!
