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Tarana · 10-17-2016, 06:09 PM

Amazon does a lot right, but gets some stuff wrong which is frustrating. I sypmathize with you over your issue Timboli. I ran into the problem of buying a series and I should have bought them all at the same time as suddenly, the audiobooks were withdrawn from sale. Seems the contract expired and the British publisher was not extending it so now there were georestrictions on the rest of the series. You could NOT GET THE FIRST BOOK! Here I own 5 of the 7 audiobooks (which were sale priced at the time), but now couldn't even start because I couldn't get the first book. This was not Amazon's fault, but the publisher. It's not like they run out of copies at Audible. The funny thing is that while I couldn't get the audiobook for this series, those in the UK couldn't get the ebook because it was...yes... georestricted to the US (UK author!)!

And yes, my audiobook dilemma was resolved some time ago, but it just is annoying when things don't have to be so darn hard. The whole goal, I thought, was to sell books to make the author money!

Someone will ask - the series was Midsommer Murders by Caroline Graham.

10-17-2016, 06:09 PM	#72
Tarana Wizard Posts: 4,049 Karma: 38840460 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Minneapolis Device: PWSE, Voyage, K3, HDX, KBasic 7 & 8, Nook Glo3, Echos, Nanos	Amazon does a lot right, but gets some stuff wrong which is frustrating. I sypmathize with you over your issue Timboli. I ran into the problem of buying a series and I should have bought them all at the same time as suddenly, the audiobooks were withdrawn from sale. Seems the contract expired and the British publisher was not extending it so now there were georestrictions on the rest of the series. You could NOT GET THE FIRST BOOK! Here I own 5 of the 7 audiobooks (which were sale priced at the time), but now couldn't even start because I couldn't get the first book. This was not Amazon's fault, but the publisher. It's not like they run out of copies at Audible. The funny thing is that while I couldn't get the audiobook for this series, those in the UK couldn't get the ebook because it was...yes... georestricted to the US (UK author!)! And yes, my audiobook dilemma was resolved some time ago, but it just is annoying when things don't have to be so darn hard. The whole goal, I thought, was to sell books to make the author money! Someone will ask - the series was Midsommer Murders by Caroline Graham. Last edited by Tarana; 10-17-2016 at 06:27 PM.