Waterstone's to launch new e-reader

[carpetmojo]

I get that a lot when I try to get a Forum interesting "recommended" book - they give me some garbage about "would I like to continue shopping on my store" or somesuch, and what I want isn't there..... or if it is it's 6 times the price.... again.

For my K4PC of course..........

[avantman42]

Originally Posted by elcreative

I was having an irritated dig at commonreader for his criticisms of a store that is currently trying to do its best in a world increasingly dominated by Amazon, one where people use their bookstores as a reference point before buying from Amazon and then criticise stores for being lazy when they can no longer afford to meet his expectations

But again, I haven't seen anything to suggest that he/she is guilty of use their bookstores as a reference point before buying from Amazon. I can understand you being annoyed that people do that, but since I don't see anything to suggest that commonreader does it, I don't understand why you had a dig at him/her.

Originally Posted by elcreative

and are legally required to implement geo-restrictions... also Amazon doesn't sell everything to every country, they have individual stores for many countries and, if you try to buy a geo-restricted title from the wrong site, your business will be refused "because it's not available in your country..."

He criticised Waterstones, but pointed out that other companies (one of which is Amazon, but he also mentions kobobooks and bookdepository) can do what he criticises Waterstones of not doing.

His criticism was that Waterstones simply decided to not sell to anyone outside the UK, whether or not they were restricted from doing so. He wasn't blaming Waterstones for the geo-restrictions, he was blaming Waterstones for implementing stricter geo-restrictions than are required by the publishers.