11-10-2009, 10:09 AM | #17 |
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Sigh. And here I left my Kindle turned on all night so the book would be there when I woke up this AM. I didn't realize it had been delayed...
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11-10-2009, 10:14 AM | #18 |
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You should count yourself fortune that you only have to wait a few weeks. NONE of Mr King's books whatsoever are available to any Kindle owner anywhere outside the US!
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11-10-2009, 11:02 AM | #19 |
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Your other option is buy an Epub version from BnN - apparently* it's only a trivial $40
And you'd have to scrub the DRM and reformat it for Kindle. sometimes you wonder if publishers are really supportive of thie ebook concept. *not a fan, and not interested myself, so haven't confirmed this. It's what I've seen others complaining about. |
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11-10-2009, 11:33 AM | #22 |
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Sorry. My mistake. the thread I was looking about was for the Stand, $40 and B&N. third hand info without a link. If true it's still daft.
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11-10-2009, 12:05 PM | #23 |
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Well, and then there are those of us (heh) who will buy the hardcover, inhale it, pass it on to family for their enjoyment...and if it has any re-read value, add the Kindle one to our permanent library in December.
This is one chunky book though. My wrists are already starting to ache from holding it. |
11-10-2009, 12:38 PM | #24 |
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I've been a King fan for a long, long time but I don't understand his position on this at all.
He's said that he supported the delay of the e-book to help out the independent booksellers and try to protect their sales. Yet, he also celebrated the price wars that pushed the pre-order price of the hardcover down to $9 - a price that independent booksellers can't possibly match and compete with. To me, the contradiction just means that it's all B.S. |
11-10-2009, 12:53 PM | #25 | |
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That said--as mentioned, the only way there'll be a pirate copy is if someone scans & OCR's the hardcover. Which, in the case of Harry Potter books, happens in a matter of hours after the release; I have no idea if there's as much interest in King's new book. Quick conversions tend to be sloppy, with poor formatting and lots of OCR errors. If you want to read & enjoy the book (unlike HP fans who often want to slam through the ebook version ASAP in order to keep from getting blasted with spoilers on their discussion communities, or who keep an ebook version in order to check for details while writing fanfic), you should probably either get the hardcover, or wait for the ebook version. Writing to the publisher and pointing out that you want to buy the ebook, but may no longer be interested by the time it's released (especially if you've been subjected to spoilers in the meantime) might be useful in general, but is not going to get you a copy of the book any sooner. Yes, it's stupid to delay the ebook release. No, there's nothing we can do about it. |
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11-10-2009, 02:35 PM | #26 |
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Well, time to see if the book it on the torrents now...
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11-10-2009, 02:38 PM | #27 |
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Well, nothing yet
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11-10-2009, 03:02 PM | #28 |
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I guess I save the most of all, with no intention of buying any version. I gave up on King long ago as his stories got hokier and hokier.
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11-10-2009, 03:04 PM | #29 |
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Oh, no! Page numbers means topaz!!!!
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11-10-2009, 03:22 PM | #30 |
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No, Topaz is when there is no file size (only page numbers). They don't want us to see how huge those topaz files are.
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