09-14-2013, 02:48 PM | #3451 |
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09-14-2013, 06:36 PM | #3453 |
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09-14-2013, 06:38 PM | #3454 |
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Isn't it amazing. Australia can't get a discount on them, Finland could buy them with a discount, and USA can't even buy them. Surely life would be easier for all concerned if everything was available to everyone. I've got over being angry about it as I was yesterday
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09-14-2013, 07:02 PM | #3455 |
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Re: Sept50, anybody else suddenly getting 'unable to apply promo code', [non-agency book]
Hmmm, they must be working on their site, tried it a few times this afternoon. Just now I signed out, back in, and now it's working again [but also the website is now back to old format]! Last edited by Blue2u; 09-14-2013 at 07:15 PM. Reason: ETA, working now |
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09-14-2013, 08:21 PM | #3456 |
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09-14-2013, 09:00 PM | #3457 |
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I'm doing likewise, with some restraint. I've got a couple of "hold" lists where I keep further volumes in a series I've invested in but not yet started, and I'm reluctant to buy more without reading at least the first book.
So, naturally, I've just started reading one of those series. If I like it, I'll pick up the four volumes I don't yet own... |
09-14-2013, 09:41 PM | #3458 | |
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09-14-2013, 10:41 PM | #3459 |
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Okay, this 50% off special has just turned way off for me on the first purchase!!
Great, I thought - an O'Reilly book at 50% off - yep I bought it. But - Kobo has recently changed it's Aus site to the 'new' look Kobo website and I didn't realise that I was buying a kepub ebook. I didn't get a choice - and nor do you know it's format even after purchase!!! Yep, it can only be viewed on the Kobo desktop or on a device - NO epub version offered. Yucko So - beware, or caveat emptor as they say in the classics!! |
09-14-2013, 10:50 PM | #3460 |
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Let O'Reilly (and Kobo) know what happened. The O'Reilly books I have purchased from Kobo in the past have been delivered as .zip files. You change the .zip to .epub and they are good to go.
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09-14-2013, 10:51 PM | #3461 | |
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I still get the old design, but as soon as I get the new one, I am going to contact Kobo customer service about the format of every single bloody purchase I might intend to make. And I think everybody should do this; perhaps that would make them reconsider. |
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09-14-2013, 10:54 PM | #3462 | |
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I've just sent Kobo Customer Care an email saying that I think that Kobo is in breach of Australian consumer laws because Kobo didn't state a fact pertinent to the sale of an ebook prior to purchase - that is they did not state what format the ebook was in. I've asked for my money back .... I'll report back how I get on. I don't hold an account with O'Reilly, so thank you for alerting me to the fact that they use the .zip format |
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09-14-2013, 10:55 PM | #3464 |
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09-14-2013, 10:55 PM | #3465 |
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I brought it up again with them when they added the link to show what devices each purchase can be read on. My point was that they needed to indicate the drm status and whether the book was reflowable or not. In the old days, that would be epub vs pdf, but that is no longer necessarily the issue these days with reflowable pdf as part of the epub3 standards and fixed format epubs showing up as well.
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