Hi all,
Well, I finally gave up on Waterstones ever getting their web site sorted out for eBooks
. I have written to them several times about how awful it is, and have received several 'we are working on it - thank you for using Waterstones' emails back, so have gone shopping in the states.
I have found that you can purchase almost any book you want from ebooks.com here in the UK, despite the (c) restrictions which says it cant be sold in the UK.
How (and this may be censored later on - if its illegal, then I am sorry, but I want to read books and we are suffering from a really bad service here in the UK)? Well, find the book you want in ebook.com and it will be displayed with the purchase buttons disabled and a "not available in the UK" message. So save the page source to your desktop (right hand click the page, view source, file >save as an "html" (eg. me.html) file on your desktop). Then edit the source file just saved (open it in wordpad or notepad), and find "disabled", removing any occurances of "disabled" in the source code (they are around the "not available in the UK" message). Finally, close (and save the file).
Now, double click on the saved HTML and it takes you back into the shop. Now you can purchase the books without restriction.
If this very wrong, then please feel free to edit or delete this posting. As I say, I for one am sick and tired how the Sony PRS-505 gets tied into waterstones, and waterstones just dont care about selling the books.
At the end of the day, the authors are still getting the money from the sale of the ebook, so it cant be too bad. Can it?
Regards
Jaffa