Posted on January 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM by Jeffrey Bruner

To our international readers:

We’ve had to stop using our universal links, as they have increasingly been causing problems for many of our readers.

While they were designed to detect the reader’s location and send them to the correct Amazon store, we’ve learned they aren’t as effective and accurate as we needed.

If an Internet provider routes its traffic through Mexico, for example, a reader in Texas is taken to Amazon MX instead of Amazon US. I just vacationed in Germany recently, and learned the links worked fine in Berlin but not in western Germany — they would go to the Netherlands.

More importantly, we’ve learned this kind of link software is increasingly penalized by Internet security software, as it is often targeted by hackers for malicious purposes. And when the software goes down — we recently had an outage that lasted for several hours — the links don’t work at all.

I know this makes our newsletter less user-friendly for our international readers, and we’re sorry about that. We’ll keep researching solutions to see if we can find something that doesn’t cause problems for our U.S. readers, which is 95% of our readership. We hope to find a new solution but it likely won't be until later this year that we can afford to implement it.

In the meantime, you can easily change the Kindle link to redirect to your country’s store: www.amazon.com, for example, will go to www.amazon.co.uk if you delete the .com and replace it with .co.uk.

 

 

US: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0DMWFMRP4
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0DMWFMRP4
CA: https://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0DMWFMRP4
MX: https://www.amazon.com.mx/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0DMWFMRP4
AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0DMWFMRP4
DE: https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0DMWFMRP4
FR: https://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0DMWFMRP4
IT:  https://www.amazon.it/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0DMWFMRP4
ES: https://www.amazon.es/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0DMWFMRP4

You can also always make a list of title and author names and then go to the Amazon home page and search and download.

I know this is an extra step, and we did not make this decision lightly, but feel we no longer had a choice if we wanted to keep sending out the newsletter. Again, we will try to develop a new solution but it will likely take several months.

Thank you for your understanding.

— Jeffrey Bruner, The Fussy Librarian

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