12-16-2009, 12:09 PM | #16 |
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12-16-2009, 12:30 PM | #17 |
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Or, if you are going to do Kindle for PC to get free books, just make up a fake id account if you find the one in your real name useful and don't want hassles.
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12-16-2009, 12:31 PM | #18 |
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Another fine example of people spending lots of money to STOP people buying books.
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12-16-2009, 12:39 PM | #19 |
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Perhaps they think that people might be telling fibs about where they live?
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12-16-2009, 12:56 PM | #20 |
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Isn't amazon legally covered in that it sells the books in good faith based on the information given by the consumer, I wonder? Does it really have to double-check everything, and go to such extremes as the email above?
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12-16-2009, 01:08 PM | #21 |
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Also to the point, why does it feel that free, PD, books need this sort of protection?
(I believe I know why, and it's the international so-called "whispernet fee", which is basically pure profit to Amazon for Kindle for PC users!) |
12-16-2009, 03:10 PM | #22 | |
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12-16-2009, 03:40 PM | #23 |
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It wasn't that long ago that publishers pulled books from Mobipocket (and other distro's?) until they improved the ways they handled geo restrictions and put checks in place. It's possible Amazon doesn't want to go through that again.
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12-16-2009, 03:55 PM | #24 |
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12-16-2009, 04:06 PM | #25 |
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12-16-2009, 04:10 PM | #26 |
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Prices are severely in flux at the moment in any case. Amazon has apparently been taking a loss on it's $9.99 ebooks because the publishers expect the same revenue as from the hardback. I've seen many cases where the ebook was the same price as the hardback at multiple stores.
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12-16-2009, 04:18 PM | #27 |
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The situation is ridiculous but AFAIK the problem lies at the feet of publishers and how they handle/distribute rights on books.
This is how it works as I understand it (I might be wrong!). Stephen King signs up for them to publish the works, then they assign/sell the rights for certain regions to specific publishers (usually a smaller publishing house associated with the main one). The Australian division/publisher gets money from the books sold in the region in return for distributing it. So the Australian division of penguin gets the rights from the main publishing arm and makes profit from Australian sales. The main publisher doesn't want Australian customers buying from the US via the Internet because the Australian division gets screwed. They need to have some simple IP matching so the smaller divisions/publishers get their cut and ebooks are available globally. |
12-16-2009, 04:24 PM | #28 | |
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12-16-2009, 08:16 PM | #29 |
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It is totally unreasonable to get angry at Amazon over this. Obviously the publishers threatened them and they had to crack down even more. If they could get away with it, why wouldn't they be selling to anyone worldwide?
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12-16-2009, 08:39 PM | #30 |
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Of course, threatening to shitcan a customer's entire entire Amazon account because he dared to download a few free ebooks outside America is a perfectly reasonable response.
I'm dubbing that RIAAconomics. |
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