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View Poll Results: January 2012 Mobile Read Book Club Run-Off Vote | |||
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré | 20 | 45.45% | |
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse | 24 | 54.55% | |
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12-28-2011, 02:34 PM | #76 |
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Then I'll ask again. If the books are not required to be available everywhere *why* is the effort being made to provide a list of sites. Surely the folks who live in Australia, Canada, Sweden, England, etc. know where to purchase ebooks locally, so that shouldn't need a list for them. I have no intention of search worldwide to make sure any book I nominate is available worldwide. That leaves the mods or interested parties to do the searches and then append that information to the nominations. I seriously do not see the need. If you're interested in reading the *book*, you should vote for the *book*. If it's not available as an ebook at your location, I'm pretty sure you can find it in another format. Unfortunately, availability versus quality is generally a kiss of death for the voting process.
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12-28-2011, 02:44 PM | #78 |
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Nobody said I cannot nominate a book that's not an eBook in the USA. This just sounds so like the Republicans and Obama's health care that it's not funny.
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12-28-2011, 02:54 PM | #81 |
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Now that that is over, and so that I am clear:
Tom, is it a rule or is it an understanding that the book should be available as an ebook somewhere? Or, is ebook availability no longer necessary for consideration? |
12-28-2011, 03:15 PM | #82 | |
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12-28-2011, 03:15 PM | #83 |
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We had a short conversation on that about a half a year or so ago. I think pilotbob said that it had to be available as an ebook either in the U.S. or Canada to be eligible, so a book would be ineligible only if it were available in neither of the two.
I think the logic was something about the U.S. being where most of our members are from while Canada is where this site originates from. My memory of it is a bit hazy but that's my recollection of it. ETA - I see pilotbob posted above me. Do you recall that, pilotbob? Actually, what you are saying now sounds correct, that it just has to be available as an ebook somewhere. Maybe someone else just proposed the U.S./Canada thing but it wasn't the actual rule. Last edited by sun surfer; 12-28-2011 at 03:18 PM. |
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12-28-2011, 03:24 PM | #85 |
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I think that just may have been a mistake on my part. I think someone proposed that with the logic I posted but it wasn't ever a rule. Now that pilotbob has posted, I think he made clear then that as long as it's an ebook somewhere it's acceptable, as you say.
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It having to be an ebook somewhere makes sense!! I would also understand the USA/Canada stipulation, if it were in place. |
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12-28-2011, 04:00 PM | #87 |
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Well, I decided to spend a little money and buy Black Rain. I think my daughter will want to read it as well, and I spend so little on books nowadays with e-libraries providing most of my reads.
Put my (real) US address in, found a 35% discount code and payed $5.84 at Kobo. If I don't have my US address in my profile and log in at Kobo the book doesn't even show up when searching due to georestrictions. I could have waited for my library to reopen Jan 16th and get a hardcopy, but I really, REALLY, prefer ebook reading. |
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Just to be very clear, no one is asked to do anything differently when nominating a book. No rules have been changed. No one is saying that a ebook has to be available in every country. Here is the additional wording which will appear in the second post of the nominating thread, along with a tally of the nominated books:
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12-28-2011, 05:37 PM | #89 | |
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