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Old 03-03-2015, 08:50 PM   #301
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If I'm going to buy it at a retailer not linked already, why not share the link and potentially help somebody out?

A lot more useful to the thread than your post.
I appreciate links as well.
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Old 03-03-2015, 09:11 PM   #302
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You know, it's really not necessary to reply to an "available at US retailers" message that already provides a sampling of links with two more links and no additional content.

It's a publisher sale. The original post gave ample information: "here are three places you can get it." Enough said. An alert doesn't need to link to every ebook vendor on the planet in order to be useful.
The reason I posted those links is because I did check a few other eBook stores and at ebooks.com it's $7.99. So the statement that it's available at the sale price at every US retailer is actually incorrect.
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Old 03-03-2015, 09:34 PM   #303
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The reason I posted those links is because I did check a few other eBook stores and at ebooks.com it's $7.99. So the statement that it's available at the sale price at every US retailer is actually incorrect.
So why not say that when you post other links? Otherwise, it can look a whole lot like you're saying "forget those guys, shop HERE instead." In fact, you have said as much before, on the occasions where you turned up your nose at Amazon links to post "better" links to EPUB vendors.
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Old 03-04-2015, 02:33 AM   #304
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You know, it's really not necessary to reply to an "available at US retailers" message that already provides a sampling of links with two more links and no additional content.

It's a publisher sale. The original post gave ample information: "here are three places you can get it." Enough said. An alert doesn't need to link to every ebook vendor on the planet in order to be useful.


You find additional links to other stores offensive?

Of course it is not necessary for hime to provide more links. But hey what are we going to lose if he does? Actually, it can be useful for some people, especially those who are regular customers of Google Store.

I am well aware that JSWolf was once officially reprimanded for providing a link to Google Play Store with a claim that the store was better than Amazon. But since then he has stopped that behavior. Now he just provides links with no comments.

JSWolf is sometimes, well, a bit off putting. But he also contributes a lot to mobileread. And frankly I count his practice of posting additional links (with no sarcastic comments) as another contribution.

If his contribution is not useful to you, just ignore it. It's that easy.
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Old 03-04-2015, 01:50 PM   #306
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You find additional links to other stores offensive?
The way he does it? Absolutely, and his "off putting" behavior (as you describe it) in other areas is exactly why.

It's as if he doesn't think the original notice is good enough because it didn't link to JSWolf's Preferred Stores, so he has to Correct The Problem and do it himself, quoting the original message only so everybody can see that This Poster Did A Bad Job. Frankly, it looks like passive-aggressive whining to me. Further, the implication that the rest of us are so stupid or forgetful that we either can't remember that Google Play and BAMM exist or are incapable of using their search functions just grates on me every time he does it.
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Old 03-04-2015, 02:16 PM   #307
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This is frankly silly. I tend to put up links with only one source because, frankly, I'm busy, and figure mobilereads users are more than resourceful enough to check other sources if they prefer those.
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Old 03-04-2015, 03:01 PM   #308
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The way he does it? Absolutely, and his "off putting" behavior (as you describe it) in other areas is exactly why.

It's as if he doesn't think the original notice is good enough because it didn't link to JSWolf's Preferred Stores, so he has to Correct The Problem and do it himself, quoting the original message only so everybody can see that This Poster Did A Bad Job. Frankly, it looks like passive-aggressive whining to me. Further, the implication that the rest of us are so stupid or forgetful that we either can't remember that Google Play and BAMM exist or are incapable of using their search functions just grates on me every time he does it.
It's not that the rest of us are stupid, providing the links is a convenience factor for me.
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Bargain @ $1.99 for today only (March 4th) from Open Road Media, according to the newsletter (couponable @ Kobo, price should be valid for all the standard Canada & US retailers, may or may not also be discounted in other regions, etc.):

The Ladies of Mandrigyn by Locus Award-winner Barbara Hambly (ISFDB, Wikipedia), one of my favourite fantasy authors, and incidentally one of my favourites of her series. This is the 1st in her Sun Wolf and Starhawk trilogy of epic low fantasy starring a mercenary leader who discovers some surprising things about himself that would be a spoiler for this first book, in which he gets asked to train a group of women in a captured city as a strike force in the hopes of freeing their enslaved men so that they can begin a revolution against the evil wizard-king, originally out from Del Rey in 1984.

I highly recommend this, as IMHO, these are very good books about politics, ethics, and the cost of various forms of power, privilege, and responsibility (and in this particular installment, societal gender relations as well), woven in very well with convincing personalities and invented cultural backgrounds and ongoing character development.

ORM does have a money-saving omnibus of this (which I picked up at a deep discount for $3.99 from Kobo during their Cyber Monday sale as an ePub supplement to the Amazon individuals I'd bought several years ago), but it rarely goes on sale and the other 2 books sometimes also drop to $1.99 each more periodically, so this is a very good price for the 1st if you want to try and and aren't sure about committing to the entire trilogy.

This has a perfectly standalone story in it which can be read and enjoyed without ever following up on the rest of it, as the overarching arc is one of the characters' journey of self-discovery, rather than a rescue-the-world-from-evil plot where you don't find out if they win until the 3rd book (that bit gets resolved long before then, just so you're not left hanging).

ETA: B&N & Amazon & Google Play linkage to make this more convenient for you to get, which I highly recommend you do if it sounds like it might be your kind of thing, if you prefer shopping there.

A brilliant mercenary must lead his army against the forces of the most powerful wizard alive

Gifted with courage, strength, and the intelligence to know when to fight, Sun Wolf is the greatest mercenary in a land overrun by war. With his first lieutenant, Starhawk—a woman more deadly than any man—at his side, he has laid waste to countless cities, taking the best of their treasures for himself, and distributing the rest among his bloodthirsty crew.

Then a woman comes to him, an emissary from the town of Mandrigyn, a lush port city recently sacked by a powerful, mad wizard of unmatched abilities. She offers Sun Wolf untold riches for the use of his army, but the captain is not fool enough to wage war against a magician. He refuses her offer, but that is not the end of it. The women of Mandrigyn can be very persuasive.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
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Night Watch (Watch #1) by Sergei Lukyanenko 1.99$
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Night Watch (Watch #1) by Sergei Lukyanenko 1.99$
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I'm not gonna provide other links because I think you're all adults and capable of typing a few letters into a browser, because frankly how inconvenient can it be to copy/paste anything in your favorite ebook store?
You just don't get us at all!
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So why provide the Amazon link?
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