Pre-Ordering From Amazon

[pengolodh_sc <pengolodh_sc@yahoo.no>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter, David wrote:
> Come the day, the book was discounted just as much in the shops,
> and you didn't have to pay Amazon's rip-off P&P (P&P per book!  I
> ask you!  Why don't they just gross it into the price?  

Because postage-rates per object charged by the Royal Mail differs 
depending on mode of delivery, on quantity, size and weight of 
objects to be delivered in one shipment, and country of destination 
of the package.  If I, living in Norway, order OotP alone, with 
Priority Express, the P&P for the book is higher, than if I order 
OotP, the newest large illustrated LoTR, the hardbound "Oxford Guide 
to Heraldry", Ottfreed Neubecker's "Heraldry: Sources, Symbols and 
Meanings", Whitley's "Cruisers of World War 2: An International 
Encyclopedia", and Cassel's Dictionary of English, to be shipped in 
one package by Air Mail.

For me, ordering OotP through Amazon shipped with Air Mail will be 
cheaper than buying the English version in Norwegian bookstores (it 
costs £12.43, all told).  Buying the English OotP through Amazon and 
having it shipped with Priority Express would most likely be cheaper 
than buying the Norwegian translation, although Amazon's price would 
be £27.49.

Another thing is that the adult cover version will not be accessible 
through Norwegian outlets for yet a while, and it is not a given the 
regular version will be available to me either, through other outlets 
than Amazon.co.uk.