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Originally Posted by PieOPah
I think it takes 24 hour to appear on your balance - that is a fairly standard thing for Point cards. You earn the points in a store and it is on their system. There is then an overnight task to upload the points to the central database.
When you spend points, this is automatically deducted from the central database (so you can't spend more than you have!)
This is an assumption based on how a Loyalty Scheme worked in my old job...
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ha okay, thanks ! i'll go check and see if they are there (only 2036.9 years to go before i'll have enough to spend them !
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Seems you get the 'black cover' when you strip the DRM. Otherwise you get a rather nondescript blue bordered with text cover in Adobe Digital Editions, at least its been that way with all my purchases from Waterstones so far. I do the same as you, add a nice cover once I've taken off the DRM  |
hm, interesting. sneaky buggers, aren't they ? i wonder if it's something like tearing off the covers of books which are being returned, so everyone will know they are illegal to sell.
although if the cover is nondescript i guess i'm not losing much.
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Originally Posted by columbus
I guess all us Brits hope that this will be a sign that we may start to get some of the "bargain priced" offerings as the Sony ebook store.
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not just you brits.
we french are hoping to see some better priced books here as well !