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Old 01-05-2014, 02:49 PM   #61
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I'm still mildly astonished that this is an issue, considering that eBooks are HTML (a language designed for dynamically re-flowing content). But if a publisher just wants to support a limited amount of hardware to save time and money, then I suppose this is how they'd do it.

As somebody who hand-created his own ebooks, it would take me a few hours to support more hardware. Seems worth the trouble, personally.
Hmm.

Seeing the work that a web site maintainer seems to do to get a pleasing and useable display from HTML with four different releases of five browsers plus mobile users. you'll be lucky.

And though Amazon supplies a emulator that covers every Kindle model there seems to be no such thing for Nook.
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Old 01-07-2014, 08:23 AM   #62
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No reason to think that. Lots of books are not available in certain markets. It is available at Amazon UK, and clearly specified as only working on certain devices:
Oi. Never noticed that was there ... small print I guess

Also, I'd have to think more than a sec to remember which Kindle I actually own....

I can thus certainly imagine people purchase books they are not able to open. Amazon knows which specific Kindle and Kindle apps I have -- they could warn in case I'd try to buy something I could actually not read on any of them.
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Old 01-07-2014, 08:34 AM   #63
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I can thus certainly imagine people purchase books they are not able to open. Amazon knows which specific Kindle and Kindle apps I have -- they could warn in case I'd try to buy something I could actually not read on any of them.
They do warn you.
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Old 01-07-2014, 02:49 PM   #64
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Oi. Never noticed that was there ... small print I guess

Also, I'd have to think more than a sec to remember which Kindle I actually own....

I can thus certainly imagine people purchase books they are not able to open. Amazon knows which specific Kindle and Kindle apps I have -- they could warn in case I'd try to buy something I could actually not read on any of them.
And its not like you would have a problem getting a refund if you did buy by mistake.
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Old 01-07-2014, 03:45 PM   #65
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Nah! I'll just stop buying ebooks from Amazon. I've already unsubscribed from the daily deal.
That's silly. All because of one book?
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Old 01-07-2014, 06:00 PM   #66
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The problem with Amazon's daily deals is that almost all the time they offer (women romance) novels. Maybe that's interesting for lonely women but not for a nonfiction book reader.
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The problem with Amazon's daily deals is that almost all the time they offer (women romance) novels. Maybe that's interesting for lonely women but not for a nonfiction book reader.
Huh? They regularly have a non-fiction selection and seldom more than a single romance novel. Usually a romance, a kids, a science fiction/fantasy and a non-fiction.
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Old 01-07-2014, 08:40 PM   #68
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The problem with Amazon's daily deals is that almost all the time they offer (women romance) novels. Maybe that's interesting for lonely women but not for a nonfiction book reader.
If you watch any of the sites that report the daily deals, you'll find a lot of variety.


www.DailyCheapReads.com
http://blog.booksontheknob.org/

Both of those sites not only report the daily deals they report the matching deals--so if B&N or Kobobooks has a daily deal, you'll see whether Amazon has matched that deal. There's also the app deal of the day and so on. All in all, there's usually 6 or so deals. If there's an Amazon UK deal, both those sites usually cover that too.
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Old 01-07-2014, 08:47 PM   #69
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And http://bookgorilla.com aggregates various deals on books, (including very occasionally a bestseller offered for free,) none of which showed up as a daily deal IIRC.

It can be configured with the categories you are interested in, and mails the list to your inbox, too, which is nice.
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The problem with Amazon's daily deals is that almost all the time they offer (women romance) novels. Maybe that's interesting for lonely women but not for a nonfiction book reader.
You clearly know nada about the romance reading demographic.
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You clearly know nada about the romance reading demographic.
Seriously.
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You clearly know nada about the romance reading demographic.
I know right? Us big burly men love "loving" too you know!
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I subscribe to a lot of Kindle daily emails, and yes, romance is the most common genre of fiction I see. One of the lists often has nothing but paranormal romance in it's SF/Fantasy category, which drives me nuts because that's not what I'm looking for.

Having said that, there's a simple reason for the preponderance of romance in the lists I get. Romance readers, as a group, spend more money on fiction than any other demographic. It only makes sense to focus on the books that people who spend money want.

They aren't the only books out there, but they are a focus because they do sell.
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I subscribe to a lot of Kindle daily emails, and yes, romance is the most common genre of fiction I see. One of the lists often has nothing but paranormal romance in it's SF/Fantasy category, which drives me nuts because that's not what I'm looking for.
But those aren't the Amazon daily deals that were brought up by joblack right? Those are deal emails from various independent sites I'm assuming. Some of those sites will let you pick which genre's you get deals for IIRC. Miscategorization is a huge PITA. It seems like some books are listed under every genre imaginable.



Amazon often does have a Romance daily deal, but it's usually one of four or five daily deals on any given day. For example today there are six daily deals...

The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally (Historical Fiction)
The Raider by Jude Deveraux (Romance)
SEALs by Mir Bahmanyar (non-fiction)
The Vampire Diaries: The Salvation: Unspoken by L. J. Smith and Aubrey Clark (Urban Fantasy)
The Vampire Diaries: The Salvation: Unseen by L.J. Smith and Aubrey Clark (Urban Fantasy)
The Time-Traveling Fashionista by Bianca Turetsky (Kids, Historical/Time Travel)

I suppose the Vampire Diaries books could be considered to have a strong Romance thread in them? Don't know, never read them.

Some days there are mysteries or thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, literary fiction. Generally there is always one Romance, sometimes two, but that because it sells very well and contrary to joblack's opinion isn't just for "lonely women".
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The problem with Amazon's daily deals is that almost all the time they offer (women romance) novels. Maybe that's interesting for lonely women but not for a nonfiction book reader.
My personal problem with Amazon's daily deals is that they almost never feature books that I'd enjoy reading.

It isn't a problem with the deals themselves because the books seem to have a large enough audience to make the promotion strategy work.

It doesn't really matter what sort of readers enjoy books that don't interest me, since I wouldn't want to reduce other people to a stereotype any more than I'd want them to do the same to me.
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