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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
One wonders what Amazon's rationale for this is? Anger customers enough to demand their availability in the US? Combine all Kindle listings in one global database that is visible on all Amazon sites - where buyers will have to sift through the "change region" option to find out if they can buy the book?
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Now you know we (non US inhabitants) felled all the time. Apart from that: nothing new, Mobipocket always worked that way - one big catalogue and all the disappointment when you can't actually buy the book.
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
To further confuse customers, the last book in the Monkeewrench series IS available in the US, but not the previous ones.
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And go ahead try to by the hole Dune series while not living in the US. I
started a Thread on the Dune forums but nothing of substance came out of it. The only interesting part - but not surprising - part was that the authors are not aware of the situation.
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Originally Posted by Olympus
Can anybody explain to me how an author / copyright holder can agree in this totally connected world such a totally confusing situation.
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By not knowing what the situation is.
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
It's totally perverse - as if (in the midst of an economic downturn/crisis/what have you) - publishers don't want our money - or are trying to make it as hard as possible to buy their product!  |
Actually it is not their product. It is the Authors product. Authors could choose publishers like smashwords or beam-ebook which don't restrict at all. Problem is that most Authors choose a pBook publisher first and get eBooks as a perceived bonus.
Martin