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Originally Posted by LadyKate
Timboli, you should contact the author directly. Perhaps on facebook?
Tell him/her how much you want to read the final installment, and how you had purchased and read the first three and ask if there is some way to get a copy of the final installment?
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I have indeed done that, even gave them my email address on request, over a week ago now.
Not heard back since, even though the author offered to help me.
Maybe they were busy, perhaps still are .... or have become aware of my getting a refund, and think it not worth bothering with anymore?
I will be sending them an email shortly, to explain I am quite happy to re-buy those 3 parts again, if I can get the 4th. Especially if I can get them in the now complete ebook, which contains all 4 parts. Hell, that could even work out cheaper. And if I can bypass Amazon to do it, even better.
I don't know how some can say the things they do say in this topic, it beggars belief for me. Some of it is purely irrelevant.
How can one get past the fact, that they Amazon, are a service a facilitator, and that is what both the buyers and sellers pay them for. Clearly they are not living up to their duty and obligations ... especially when they call all the shots. Without us, they are nothing ... they should not forget that.
P.S. Over the years I have been in contact with other authors or seen comments they have written, and many aren't happy with Amazon, but deal with them because they are forced to. One author (Piers Anthony) a year or two back, even sold me an ebook directly from his publisher, without DRM, because it was unavailable to me through Amazon. It was the first or last book (I forget) in a five book series. The other four were available to me via Amazon (very cheap too), but I wanted to ensure I could get all 5 in the same format, before purchasing any.
That was a time, when I was still struggling over getting ebooks for authors where I had long collected their works as physical books. My thinking at the time, was keep to physical, unless a new author or new series. Now, because I like ebooks so much, prefer to read them, and because DRM hasn't proved an issue for me, I just buy as ebook ... except perhaps for a final book in a series, where I have all the others as physical.
And then other authors have little control over their publisher, so cannot help, even though they want to ... like Robin Hobb.