Also I will own up to being very perplexed about the fan who STARTED all this by tweeting to SRB. It's not true that we can't buy from Amazon - I've done it before. We just don't have an amazon.com.au site. My copy of Lexicon I bought from an actual bookstore, albeit an internationally-owned store which could afford to offer it at discount. My copy of Covenant I bought from a non-amazon online US retailer, at half the price for which it retails in Australia, and considerably earlier.

Neither of these may be the most ethical option, but there are many ways to access SRB's books aside from Amazon - even if you don't live anywhere near a big bookstore.