[Timboli]

@LadyKate - Thanks for that. A burden shared is a pain lessened in my book (sic).

I published this same topic in a few other places, and one person responded with the following.

tl;dr - did you specify where you feel the pain

To which I replied.

Yep, in the wallet .... which they will now certainly see less of.

They hurt my feelings too ... but that's another story .... that I am using Community Therapy to deal with.

And another responder said.

What do you expect to happen?

I replied with the following, which I feel is a good summary.

Now .... nothing much. But this topic is one of the promises I made to them, once I had determined they were being unfair, unreasonable, immoral & unethical .... and most of all, STUPID!.

What should have happened?

They should have said - well we let you buy three quarters of a short story/novella, so I guess we better let you buy the final ending. It would only be fair and just ... and all things considered we have no reasonable grounds for withholding that segment from you.

Especially as the author agrees I should be able to purchase it.

To date, they have released at least or about 127 of these short stories or segments in the Silo Saga, by various authors, that are part of the Kindle Worlds collective. I've bought most of this sort of Fan Fiction, that is based in Hugh Howey's Wool Trilogy universe ... just shy of 100 of them ... so far. All of them from what I have seen at this point, still present a purchase button to me, including more recent releases, after that 4th part/segment was released.

Amazon represent the issue to me as being geo-location based and down to the Publisher, which after checking with the author, is solely Amazon, so they are certainly in a position to do something about this situation, that won't impact on the rights of others.

If you ask me, a mistake has occurred and they need to fix it. Logic says it was their mistake, as I am just a customer, who has done nothing wrong, just bought what they presented to me, entering into a good faith agreement with them by doing so.

It is either a big mistake, because they promoted and let me buy all those Kindle World Silo Saga stories, when perhaps they shouldn't have, or they (small) mistakenly marked this Part 4 ebook as unavailable to me. In either scenario, they need to do the right thing and make good.

If they don't, then their reputation is seriously compromised and they should not be trusted by myself or others. As simple as that really. Sure you can talk about Terms & Conditions (Store Policies), but obligations should and do extend beyond those. There are codes of behavior & conduct to be considered and taken into account ... something vigorously policed in my country, at least.

In my version of the world, these sorts of things, obnoxious or blind or ignorant behavior, should be talked about far and wide. I am an advocate for change after all, and big on Justice trumping all ... justice not being the same as revenge. Forewarning others as I wish I had been forewarned is certainly an element too ... prevention being better than cure.

EDIT
I don't buy into this geo-location stuff anyway, especially when instigated by a publisher for totally unnecessary reasons. In that regard, Amazon should be setting a good example to other Publishers, not being bad like many of them.

If this was a physical book, then even if a publisher never released it in my country, I could still buy it from an overseas store.

Why should ebooks be any different?
They shouldn't be less flexible, that's for sure .... a true oxymoron when you think about it. Ebooks are supposed to be better.

There is no beating Control Freaks though.