Quote Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown View Post

I'm not sure Amazon will ship to the USA ahead of US publication dates as their distribution contract should preclude that from happening (this is to prevent "flooding" or "dumping" lower priced editions of the same book in the market; the same applies to US titles shipping to the UK).
You are right, but IMHO this is because Amazon is an American company, even though they have multiple websites covering different countries.