Why would only the audiobook be available?

[maddz]

I see that a lot with US SFF backlist titles in the UK; the audiobook is available, but the eBook is not - but is on Amazon.com. So I would suggest that it's geo-restrictions to blame.

[ownedbycats]

I'm in Canada, if that matters.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've never had a problem removing the DRM from KF8 or Mobi eBooks from Amazon.

Not with removing the DRM itself, but the Kindle software constantly ignoring the "don't automatically update!" settings and updating automatically.

[mitford13]

I’ve noticed this occasionally on Kobo UK, not enough to detect a pattern (don’t read SFF), just assumed it was a rights issue.

[library addict]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Not with removing the DRM itself, but the Kindle software constantly ignoring the "don't automatically update!" settings and updating automatically.

Check this thread before starting the program if you haven't done so already.

[latepaul]

A polite email to the publisher might nudge them towards providing it to epub stores.

Or not, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Not with removing the DRM itself, but the Kindle software constantly ignoring the "don't automatically update!" settings and updating automatically.

Again, not a problem. I have a PW3 registered to my account so I can download direct from Amazon and when KindleforPC updated, I reinstalled 1.17 and it works.I also applied the hack to stop it from updating again.

[gmw]

I saw this thread and looked in because I wondered if you might be referring to David Edding's series: The Belgariad and The Mallorean. Both of which are available as audiobooks but are no longer available as ebooks (although they used to be).

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by gmw

I saw this thread and looked in because I wondered if you might be referring to David Edding's series: The Belgariad and The Mallorean. Both of which are available as audiobooks but are no longer available as ebooks (although they used to be).

They're available as ebooks in the US, but apparently not elsewhere.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

They're available as ebooks in the US, but apparently not elsewhere.

Honestly, I fail to see how that benefits either publisher or readers. If someone wants an eBook and can't get it legally, they're more likely to turn to piracy.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Honestly, I fail to see how that benefits either publisher or readers. If someone wants an eBook and can't get it legally, they're more likely to turn to piracy.

Personally, I prefer to modify my geolocation.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Personally, I prefer to modify my geolocation.

With ebooks it's easy, but not so easy with video streaming services. As long as georestrictions remain, so does rampant piracy. I'm not saying piracy would vanish completely along with georestrictions, there will always be people who want their content free of charge. But the pirating of movies and TV series would certainly lessen. That of ebooks probably not, as it's much easier to pirate ebooks than movies. Still, I think there are considerably fewer ebook pirates than movie pirates, simply because there are considerably fewer book readers than movie enthusiasts in general. And movies/TV series have much stricter georestrictions than ebooks (this from personal experience - while there are very few ebooks not legally available to me nowadays, there are tons of movies and TV series still not available to me from any streaming service, but perfectly available to people in Western Europe and US). Why it's still that way in the third decade of the 21st century is a total mystery to me.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

They're available as ebooks in the US, but apparently not elsewhere.

The Belgariad series (eBooks) used to be available only in the UK. Now a different publisher has the rights to Edding's estate and has them just on Amazon. Spectrum Literary Agency, Inc. is the publisher and they don't do ePub. Seems they just do Amazon in the US.

Transworld Publishers which is a division of Penguin Random House in the UK published these eBooks. I do have them from Transworld.

I do think this is ridiculous. It will lead to piracy.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Personally, I prefer to modify my geolocation.

Can you do that to buy eBooks from Amazon US? It seems Spectrum only publishes eBooks on Amazon US.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

With ebooks it's easy, but not so easy with video streaming services

Actually, it's very easy to change your location with video streaming services. You just get a smart DNS and you then look like you are coming from someplace other then where you are. You don't have the slowdown that you do from a VPN.