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Apprentice Alf has the answer.......
![]() And I find the original Bond books (not the "posthumous" ) rather like the Mclean works (Guns of Navarone etc..) - some still retain readability, some not. Unlike, for example, Buchan (39 Steps..) Conan Doyle, Freeman (Thorndyke), etc..... who, I find, still don't date as much as Fleming. |
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Of course! Pocketbook? Other hardware-only vendors? Not so obvious. I suspect the business case won't be too solid but it's not impossible. But if Amazon is really going to monopolize ebook selling worldwide as the apologist claim... ![]() ![]() Last edited by fjtorres; 04-18-2012 at 07:26 PM. Reason: Typo |
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Not everyone wants to pay Amazon for eBooks. Not everyone wants to use a Kindle app. Not everyone wants to read on a phone or a computer. Not everyone buys a Kindle. I'm talking about people who bought ePub capable readers and not Kindles. If they wanted a Kindle, they'd have bought a Kindle. |
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It'd still be exclusive to Amazon of course, but not just exclusive to kindle devices/apps. If they only planned to keep it restricted to the kindle apps/devices, the "initially" would seem an odd thing to say. Of course I/we could be reading too much into a throw away statement. Anyhow, my thoughts were that _if_ Amazon decided to offer a version for non-kindle devices/apps, they'd only be able to do that if they dropped DRM (I doubt they'd want to setup support for other DRM schemes, hope not anyway). Which led me to question would Amazon really consider a non-DRM version of the bond books. I can't see them wanting to go that route, but the "initially" comment made me think can there be any other explanation? |
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I agree it doesn't make sense for amazon to lose drm, it's a good lock-in to their ecosystem. I'm just curious why they said "initially". Even if they sold a la carte though, it would still have made perfect sense to build an additional ecosystem to make amazon the go to place for buying books. I don't see a problem with them selling books to others too though, it's only increasing their sales and exposing non kindle owners to the "extra" features they could get if only they bought fully into the Amazon ecosystem. Last edited by JoeD; 04-19-2012 at 09:41 AM. |
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NPR had a segment on Amazon getting the Bond novels. BN has said it won't sell the paper versions.
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Really can't see many of them accepting such an offer, but I have a feeling what you say may be more likely than amazon offering to sell a multi format, DRM free version. |
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Maybe it was written by a snot nosed delinquent right out of college who had been taught to include a word like "initially" because "we never know what the future may entail" or similar line of doltish pc. All I'm saying is that it might be wise not to read too much into that statement.
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Has anyone gone to a Barnes & Nobles and tried placing a special order for an Amazon published book?
I grew up in a small town and recall several occasions where I'd go to our small local book store and give them the ISBN of some book they didn't regularly stock, and in a few weeks I'd get a call saying the book was in. Just wondering if Barnes & Noble would do it then, or if they'd just tell the customer to go elsewhere... |
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![]() Anyway, I'd guess these days B&N just uses its own online catalog to special order books, and perhaps even a part of the online system to fulfill those requests. It's not like Ingram sends out microfiches of their catalog to the stores anymore.... |
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I visited Amazon's Thomas & Mercer imprint catalogue and randomly picked a book, and then went to BN.com and searched on the ISBN for that book... turns out BN.com do sell that book. This makes me wonder if Barnes & Noble just won't stock these Bond books in their physical stores, but will still offer them online... Or are they not boycotting ALL Thomas & Mercer books, only a selection? Not that this helps anyone who wants a non-Kindle e-book edition, but still... Last edited by K. Molen; 04-19-2012 at 01:27 PM. |
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B&N's idea of "not-carrying" a book is limited to their B&M storefronts. They do carry them online and they *will* special order them in the stores.
Just like you could do it at home from Amazon.com. (Only not as cheap as Amazon.) In other words, the one way they could actually offer a service Amazon doesn't is the one way they refuse to sell it. And they make sure everybody knows it, too. ![]() |
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For those who are interested, Ian Fleming goes Public Domain in Life + 50 countries on Jan 1. 2016. (so does E.E.Smith PHD...)
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