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Originally Posted by jhowell
If you click the “available on these devices” in listings you get a pop up list and for some on the bottom it says:
That wording implies the publisher has made a choice.
I have seen this mainly for magazines, such as this one. |
It may imply it--but that's Amazon shifting the focus away from themselves. I'm sorry, but Indy publishers have NO, repeat,
NO ability whatsoever to affect the list of where their eBooks can be read, other than using the various Amazon software options, e.g., Kindle Create's Print Replica option, and it's Amazon that "decides" where that book is read.
To wit, Amazon's
own HELP pages will tell you that if you make a PR eBook, it's buyable and readable on eInks, right? Except---they're not. They're not at all. This very thread is about a customer of mine, that's irate that the PR eBook that we made for him
cannot be read on eInks, Amazon's own Help pages be damned. Trust me, if he could choose, it would be served to eInks. It's not his choice.
@Little.Egret: I didn't ask you to mind-read Indy publishers or trade publishers. You stated, as a fact, that:
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Amazon does allow publishers to specify a subset of Kindles.
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...and I asked you to explain
why you asserted that--
not what's inside the heads of publishers.
Hitch