No, that would be expensive (over 1000 pages in 5 volumes) and so restrict how often we can bring out new editions.

This is not a glossy picture book, but rather a guide filled with up-to-date information to help you plan and implement a great cruise. It has a soft glossy cover and the inside is printed on standard matte paper.

Don't worry, just use Amazon Global. They ship anywhere. 

We suggest a retail price of €42 each for volumes 2,3&4 and €25 each for volumes 1&5.

However, we have no control over what the stores charge, and given that we are not able to give stores a big discount (those days are gone thanks to Amazon), we can't blame them if they ask a bit more. Right now Datema and Amazon Global seem to be the best deal.

Some Amazon stores aren't carrying the Guide yet, but that's changing quickly, so if you want to check, just go to your Amazon store and enter "Norwegian Cruising Guide 8" (without the quote marks) to see if that has changed. Make sure you don't order an earlier edition by accident.

Let's see if I can put this politely...that's bullshit! Our printer ships books within a week of an order from a seller and shipping takes only a few days, so even if they are out of stock the maximum should be about two weeks.

Not sure why Amazon is doing this, but most likely it's some marketing game to get you to buy from one of their sales partners. 

One option is Amazon Global, which has the Guide in stock and ships quickly.

Obviously we would prefer if you bought new, but hey, if you save some money and a tree gets saved too, we are cool with that.

However, be very careful. Some of these offers are bogus. We know this because they were offering secondhand 8th Edition books before we had shipped the first one!

So make absolutely sure they are not trying to sell you an earlier edition.

We no longer sell books directly because it's a lot easier for you to buy them from a marine bookstore in your area, or one that can put a complete package together of everything you need for a cruise to Norway,

 or from Amazon, where you may already have an account and where you will probably get free shipping.

That's terrible. Please contact us and we will figure out a way to get the Guide to you, even if we have to bring it by sail on our boat...well, not really, but we will find a way.

Yes, please, that would be great. You can either buy the books through Ingram, or by contacting us directly. Either way, tell us you are selling our books and we will add your store to the list of sources.

We are here to help.

Technically, the answer is yes, but the bigger question is will you be happy doing that? 

The Guide is a fixed layout book so the text does not flow and you can't change the size—text reflow works great for books that are mostly text, but is terrible for guide books with lots of photos and formatting.

The result is that on a phone you will be zooming in and out a lot, although a larger phone is usable.

Bottomline, a tablet, even a small one—we have tested the iPad Mini and it's great—provides the best experience.

Not to worry, you are all good. Just buy the Guide on iBooks and then, if you don't already have it, download iBooks onto your Macintosh using the Mac App Store (it's free).

We also like to use a computer for most things, so we understand where you are coming from. That said, reading the Guide really does work a lot better on a tablet, and now that you can buy an Android tablet from companies like Samsung for less than €200, getting one makes a lot of sense, particularly since you can use it for a lot of other things as well. 

You can also get inexpensive waterproof cases so that you can safely read your eBook Guide in the cockpit.

That said, if you still want to use your Windows computer, please see the next question.

Yes, you can do that, but there's a limitation: None of the links (external or internal) work. Google tell us this is "Intended Behaviour", which makes no sense to us, but there it is.

That said, if you wish to read your Guide on a Windows PC, this is the best alternative.

Instructions on how to read your Guide when offline.

Google say that you can use either of these and some others to read the Guide after buying it on Google Play Books. However, there are some steps to go through to make that happen, and we have not tested this.

No, not good for you, not good for us:

• Channels like iTunes®  and Google Play® allow you to buy with one click on an account you probably already have.
• Apple and other channels automatically download your Guide to all your devices. Much easier than manually downloading and transferring PDFs.
• PDF eBooks are yesterday's technology. Rightly or wrongly, the future of eBooks lies with ePub, the format used by iBooks® and Google Books®.

We are here to help.