From a Random House Group press release:
Bill Bryson, bestselling author of Notes from a Small Island and A Short History of Nearly Everything, is travelling into digital with the publication of his most popular works as ebooks for the first time. … The ebooks … are available now to readers across the UK, EU and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) from everywhere ebooks are sold.
Available in ebook format will be Bryson’s full travel backlist: The Lost Continent; Neither Here, Nor There; Notes from a Small Island; A Walk in the Woods; Notes From a Big Country; Down Under and Bill Bryson’s African Diary.
Also available will be A Short History of Nearly Everything, his acclaimed book on the history of science which is the biggest selling non-fiction title of the last decade, along with Made in America, his study of American language and culture, and his childhood memoirs The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Bryson’s soon-to-be published latest title, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, will also be published simultaneously as an ebook and a hardback on the 27 May 2010.
Stop with the geo restrictions already. Enough is enough. Why would Canada be excluded? Utter idiocy.
Just a thought.
Love Bryson’s stuff. Let’s get it on American Kindles.