05-04-2013, 02:16 PM | #31 | |
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05-04-2013, 03:36 PM | #32 |
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I enjoy having the ends of books sneak up on me. I've found that I tend to start making assumptions/hypotheses about various plot points or events when I know exactly (whether through page/location count, progress bar, or just seeing the thickness of the chunk of remaining pages in a pbook) how close I am to the end. Whereas I just get to "let it all happen" when I'm flying blind.
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05-04-2013, 03:55 PM | #33 |
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Gang, howdy:
To be clear, it's not just direct links that Apple won't allow. It's...deeper than that. We are very fortunate in our client list, in that some of our clients are quite well-known. One of them--our biggest "name," without doubt, we'll call him/her Author #1--recently had an advert or "flyer" you might call it, at the back of her latest ePUB. This flyer linked to the website of author #2. Now, at author #2's website, there's a link to buy his/her book--which is only available at Amazon. So...at least two degrees of separation, right? Apple had a cow. The client's "people" had to get on the phone with Apple to get it solved, basically by simply stating that if Apple wanted Author #1's book, they had to suffer the slings and arrows of Author #2 having the audacity to sell his/her book wherever s/he wanted. Trust me: this sort of thing happens all the time with them. "Walled garden" doesn't do it justice. Hitch |
05-05-2013, 07:25 PM | #34 | |
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05-05-2013, 07:53 PM | #35 |
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If an author ends a book on a cliff-hanger, that's the last book by that author I'll read. I made an exception for Patrick Rothfuss, but if I'd known how Wise Man's Fear would end, I'd have held off the first two books until the third book came out.
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05-10-2013, 04:06 AM | #36 | |
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