07-23-2014, 09:38 AM | #46 | |
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07-23-2014, 09:44 AM | #47 |
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07-23-2014, 04:49 PM | #48 |
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I would think an alternate approach would be to contact the authors (through contact info on Amazon or google them to find their blog or facebook or twitter) and request that they offer their books on other vendors that provide Epub format -- there are plenty of choices: Smashwords, B&N, Kobo, Itunes. Authors can create and offer your files through DriveThruFiction or Gumroad, too.
Smashwords and Gumroad are nice because they sell worldwide and allow customers to direct download the files to their devices instead of requiring a proprietary reader program or app. Many authors stick to Amazon because it is easy and it is the dominant player. If they realize that being exclusive with just one vendor is costing them money, they may think about diversifying to other retailers. |
07-23-2014, 05:30 PM | #49 |
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In the US and UK.
In Europe, some countries don't even have an Amazon store, and then you need to get books from the US. Books not in English are hard to get at Amazon US. Even if a country has an Amazon store, getting books in your native language is often possible in EPUB only. |
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Do they filter by IP address? Or maybe the local publishers don't want to deal? Which would odd because Amazon Publishing is currently the biggest US publisher of translated foreign books. I dunno about the other language sections but the Spanish section is pretty good. http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Kindle...rd_i=154606011 A bit overloaded on steamy romance but otherwise fine. Last edited by fjtorres; 07-23-2014 at 06:10 PM. |
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07-23-2014, 08:07 PM | #52 |
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A lot of those books are Google Translate versions. Absolutely crap.
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The spanish ones I've bought are legit... straight from the publisher. Last edited by fjtorres; 07-23-2014 at 09:47 PM. |
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07-23-2014, 10:11 PM | #54 |
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The Swedish and Danish ones I have checked. The Spanish may be legit, I haven't looked at those. A lot of the Japanese titles are also suspect which really boggled me since Amazon has a Japanese store. Must be some sort of geo restriction I guess.
Maybe some other members could take a look and give us their impressions. |
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Some of the large languages (those with an Amazon Kindle store of their own) do seem to have a reasonable representation, at least as far as numbers go, but without knowing those countries' book markets, I can't even begin to guess how well Amazon is actually doing compared to local epub bookshops. |
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I keep getting "suggestions" from Amazon that I can buy Kindle books from their .fr site, but I choose not to. The choice of titles in other European languages appears to be quite a bit better at the French site, though mostly Spanish and Italian. (I have seen some Scandinavian and Dutch books, but usually only those titles originally written in those languages.) |
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So what? I wouldn't be surprised if there are 161K German books released EACH YEAR. In the Netherlands alone, 30K books are released, and Germany is like 6 times bigger in population. Amazon's catalogs for non-English books are small compared to the EPUB retailers, at least the last time I looked. If you want Dutch books for example, you're MUCH better off at Kobo. Last edited by Katsunami; 07-24-2014 at 12:02 PM. |
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The first speaks to the organization of the ebookstore (where Amazon is generally above average) while the other has many possible explanations, mostly related to harsh economic realities. |
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07-26-2014, 07:20 AM | #59 | |
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I don't think so for Japan.
Last year article. http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013...ttle-in-japan/ Quote:
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