Global by Design

According to the press release, Unicode 5.0 is now in print and “available at booksellers everywhere.”

According to Amazon the book is still in pre-order stage. And I’m curious to know if Amazon is serious about the free shipping option — after all, this book weighs in at a whopping 1,400 pages!

• Unicode Turns 5.0 Today
• Amazon: Now Serving 200+ Countries
• Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies
• Heading Toward Multilingual URLs
• Kindle goes international, but not multilingual
• The Kindle forces the question: Is it bookworthy?