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anamardoll · 07-12-2011, 07:58 PM

This surcharge also comes up every year during the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contests -- the excerpts posted to Amazon as Kindle books are supposed to be free, but non-US readers would have to pay the surcharge EACH TIME for EACH EXCERPT to read them. There are hundreds of excerpts published -- it would be over $1,000 to download them all. Pricey.

Amazon refuses to waive the fee that *seems* to be instituted in error. (The excerpts are merely a few pages each, and are only available for a few months as part of the contest.)

It is terribly frustrating for the non-US author entrants, as they cannot recommend their excerpt to their framily.

07-12-2011, 07:58 PM	#2
anamardoll Chasing Butterflies Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries.	This surcharge also comes up every year during the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contests -- the excerpts posted to Amazon as Kindle books are supposed to be free, but non-US readers would have to pay the surcharge EACH TIME for EACH EXCERPT to read them. There are hundreds of excerpts published -- it would be over $1,000 to download them all. Pricey. Amazon refuses to waive the fee that seems to be instituted in error. (The excerpts are merely a few pages each, and are only available for a few months as part of the contest.) It is terribly frustrating for the non-US author entrants, as they cannot recommend their excerpt to their framily.