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Originally Posted by asleyam
I emailed the author and asked her if she knew her book was unavailable in audio in AU. No she replied, perhaps I should contact the AU govt to make it available there. Well that told me all I needed to know, which was that many authors have no idea what geoblocking is and who is responsible. I told her it was her publisher she should contact, govts don’t do commercial marketing that creates geoblocking.
Meanwhile I am still waiting for that book in audio.
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I've had a similar experience, and spoken about it here before, but here is a not so brief summary.
I read and loved Hugh Howey's Wool (Silo) saga, and he was gracious and adventurous enough, to allow many others to write their own Silo stories. I tried to collect (buy) all the ones I thought sounded decent. In the end, I bought about 100 of them. Many were released as segments to buy, so often 3 or 4 would constitute a whole story.
Perhaps I made a mistake to read one such segment collection, before all parts were released ... not that it is always easy to determine how many segments there will be in total, and sometimes they take their sweet time coming out.
In any case, I bought the first 3 of 4 segments by Wilson Harp, for his Hart's Folly story.
The 4th segment was slow to be released, so I had read the others before it was released, but not too long before it was actually released... though I did not know that until much later, where I saw it by accident ... it had been hidden from me.
When I went to buy it, it said it was not available to me. So I contacted Amazon and I contacted Wilson Harp, who was quite surprised and said he would look into it. Amazon on the other hand kept giving me the run around and it took a while before i found someone who actually understood how odd the situation was. Alas, I was told that all they could do was pass the issue on to those higher up the chain.
They never got back to me, and neither did Wilson Harp after the first two emails. In the end, I asked for my money to be returned for the first 3 segments, and Amazon complied.
Sure, I got my money back, and sure I read 3 segments, but it was an incomplete story. No different really to reading a book and finding the last five chapters missing. So wholly unsatisfactory.
From what I was told, it was all to do with the Geolocation crap, and even though all seemed to agree with me, that a mistake had been made, nothing was ever done about it ... certainly not in my favor anyway.
If I recall rightly, the author also released all 4 segments as a whole story (one ebook), but that also was unavailable to me.
My wishlist program checks that ebook every day, to see if there has been any change. There never has been. If there was, I would buy all 4 parts.
I added it to my Wishlist on the 27/09/2016. It was only $1.99.
Just had a quick check, and no parts seem available now ... at least to me.