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Old 01-21-2015, 09:34 AM   #31
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Amazon is discounting Amazon Prime memberships this Saturday, 2015/1/24 only, in honor of their winning two awards at the 72nd Golden Globes. Prime will be $72 instead of $99 that day. Looks like it's only for new members, sadly, but if you've been thinking about getting a sub, this is a good time since it's $27 off. The signup link isn't showing info on the deal yet, so don't try to buy it ahead of Saturday!

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Since many here may be using Straight Talk, Net10, Simple Mobile, or Telcel America (all run by Tracfone), I figure this is a good place to post this. Tracfone has settled with the FTC over their throttling and/or cutting off unlimited data plans. Tracfone advertised the plans as unlimited, but then actually throttled or cut off customers who hit 2.5GB in a month. Even when they did start notifying customers, they hid the info in hard to find places, effectively still not notifying them.

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The FTC was unamused. And so today Tracfone has agreed to settle with the FTC, admitting no wrongdoing (of course ), but is paying out $40 million to settle the investigation. Here's part of the FTC's announcement:

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So if you used an unlimited plan before this month under any of those brands, you might want to file a claim to see if you're due any money.
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Just found out that Nook no longer supports Nook for PC for magazine subscriptions. I found out when I tried to get my March Analog copy. Got my Feb Asimov's fine on Jan 1, but changed sometime during this month. Since can't get PC mag downloads from Amazon, any suggestions? Looks like Kobo has the same restrictions...
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Just found out that Nook no longer supports Nook for PC for magazine subscriptions. I found out when I tried to get my March Analog copy. Got my Feb Asimov's fine on Jan 1, but changed sometime during this month. Since can't get PC mag downloads from Amazon, any suggestions? Looks like Kobo has the same restrictions...
I didn't know Kobo had those restrictions, but I'd seen threads about Nook and their stupid changes. Have you tried Google Play? (I don't even know if they have subscriptions, but it's the only epub I can think of).
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Magazines are in Google Play Newstand. It used to be called something else, but that's the current name.
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The Greasemonkey script for Firefox still works -- I just tested it -- but only for the most recent issues, since B&N no longer allows you to scroll through back issues.

Also, if you have an Android device with the Nook app it's very easy to copy the files off to a PC. My own choice is to navigate to to the file and use Dropbox, but a wired connection to a PC works fine, too.


Unless someone has more experience with Google Play Newstand for magazines, I'd avoid them like the plague. I recently bought issues of Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazines, and they appeared to be crippled so they can only be read with Google's App (which I don't like) or online but only with the Chrome (or Chromium) browser. I (eventually) found where the files are located, but they appear to be jpegs of the individual pages with cryptic names. I may be able to assemble PDF's of them, eventually. If anyone else has more experience and success with these files, I'd love to hear about it! (NOTE: They're DRM-free, at the publisher's request, so I don't think it would run afoul of any forum rules.)

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Actually, I want to avoid B&N for everything now. THey have changed the way they handle DRM, and the new method of removing it (getting info from a named file) doesn't work for me since named file has only error info.
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Yes, aware of that. But it doesn't get me to the end result -- DRM free mags on my PC that can be read on any device. I won't allow DRM on any of my devices, including the PC, and would rather do without than allow the DRM propagators to win... I have stopped using/updating a number of programs on the PC over the years when the DRM couldn't be removed in any reasonable way. Talking with money seems to be the only thing that even has a chance of working.
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Yes, aware of that. But it doesn't get me to the end result -- DRM free mags on my PC that can be read on any device. I won't allow DRM on any of my devices, including the PC, and would rather do without than allow the DRM propagators to win... I have stopped using/updating a number of programs on the PC over the years when the DRM couldn't be removed in any reasonable way. Talking with money seems to be the only thing that even has a chance of working.
Have you tried buying those magazines direct from the publisher site? When I was reading short stories/magazines, I used to buy most of them direct...although the Ellery I think I bought in B&N. (I didn't have a subscription either. I just occasionally bought issues.) I know Black Gate used to sell direct and I'm pretty sure they didn't have DRM. I was buying electronic copies by then.
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Should have mentioned -- the only mags I'm currently interested in are Asimov, Analog, and Outdoor Photographer. Both Asimov and Analog redirect to the usual suspects (Amazon, Kobo, etc) and Outdoor Photographer redirects to those plus Zinio.

I've no experience w/Zinio (Windows 8 supported), but if it's anything like the Amazon Windows 8 version it is pretty useless. I still use the pre-version 8 of Amazon kindle on Windows 8.1 machine to get simple files in standard formats. I already get a lot of SFF short stories free (including ones from Rusch each Monday), so I don't lack for reading materials. But I would like some of the stories on those particular mags. If I can't get them that way, I'll have to wait till they show up in anthologies/collections (for SFF), and just sit the OP out. I was a dead-tree subscriber for 8 years, but moving soon to a very small, moving space, and all mags and all but a couple of physical books have to go.
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Just found out that Nook no longer supports Nook for PC for magazine subscriptions. I found out when I tried to get my March Analog copy. Got my Feb Asimov's fine on Jan 1, but changed sometime during this month. Since can't get PC mag downloads from Amazon, any suggestions? Looks like Kobo has the same restrictions...
This is exactly what I feared would happen and is why I cancelled my Asimov's and Analog subscription from B&N. Am so glad I did that now. Amusingly, while I had gotten all my issues, they for some reason refunded me the last month of the sub, so I ended up getting a couple of issues free.

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I'm not saying to stop doing what you're doing, but my experience has been they just chalk every lost sale up to piracy and never even consider it might be DRM protestors. Even if you tell them you did it over DRM, they just assume you're a pirate and lying. Most companies have a serious blindspot on this issue.
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