Reading group

I've joined a reading group over here; being cheap, I tend to order the books on Amazon (as the local library system has disappointed me in the past when I've tried to reserve books).

I got home tonight to discover that the latest book has arrived - the next meeting is a week on Sunday, so I've got nine days to get through Neverwhere.

I was a little surprised to see that the book had been posted from the UK. I'd bought it from Amazon's Canada site, and most of the sellers on there seem to be based in the US. I skipped past those and located a seller called awesomebookscanada, who claimed that the book was in stock, and shipped from Ontario. I ended up paying a little more for the book - four times more than if I'd gone for the same book from a US seller, though admittedly it was still only 4 cents.

So clearly there's enough money in the postage credit to pay to airmail a paperback across the Atlantic (I think the postage comes out at about 4 pounts - and I've just noticed that the keyboard on this US laptop doesn't have  the pound sign.) I can't decide if it's from a drop-shipper, who buy books locally and post them on when they get an order - when I was selling on Amazon, I had a couple of orders from drop-shippers. The alternative, I guess, is that it's a Canadian company who have decided that it's actually cheaper to ship from the UK - given that there were a couple of business cards in the book being used as bookmarks, both for Toronto businesses, I'm wondering if a company's just sent its whole stock to the UK....