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Old 10-12-2009, 02:03 PM   #16
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Thanks, Lilly; I've tried uninstalling, updating, uninstalling the update and reverting to original, uninstalling that, repeating the operation a dozen times over, and (today) going for the latest download. No change. I still can't get a left panel. So I can buy books and put them in the eBook Library ... I just can't move them to my reader. I have now deleted the Sony eLibrary and will never use it again -- after all, if you're not in the US, who needs it?

By the way, Patricia, Amazon (a parcell of rogues) makes a big deal of saying that the two buck loading for Kindle books bought in the UK "INCLUDES VAT". Yeah 'includes'. not 'represents'.

The purchase of 'goods' in the UK carries VAT of 19%, as appears to be reflected in the unpardonable Kindle cover price loading. But, as Amazon so clearly showed when it wiped books from owners' machines recently, an ebook isn't a 'purchase' at all but a mere 'licence'. Therefore an ebook is not 'goods' but a 'service' and carries only 6% VAT. Who gets the other buck and a half I wonder.

Looking at the huge range of prices and restrictions in ebooks (though I love ebooks and will never desert them), I feel that we're caught in a vortex of beastliness. This is a sea a-bubble with sharks where so-called 'pirates' seem to be the only folks playing from a fairly square bat. I woudn't download a pirate ebook, but I certainly sympathise with those who do in the face of 'legitimate' swindlers.

Hoots. Neil
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