Harry Potter ebooks! Really!

[whitearrow]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

The way I read it, is that you'll get charged for a download for each device you put them on. So if you have a book on a Kindle Touch, a Kindle Fire, a desktop, a laptop, and an iPhone; you'll get charged for 5 of your 8 downloads.

If that is the case (and I can't verify that it is), then they really have no business queueing them to download to all of my Kindle devices automatically, when all I wanted to do was send them to my archive to download as I see fit.

[tecweston]

Originally Posted by plib

So, if you've been backing up your Calibre Library, reading device etc. Stop. Now!

I suppose that also means putting the ebooks on my Nook's SD card is also illegal.

[ProfCrash]

I read it as 8 licenses.

[AnemicOak]

I had really hoped that these wouldn't have any geo-restrictions on them. Anyone in the US figured out a way to buy the UK versions?

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by whitearrow

If that is the case (and I can't verify that it is), then they really have no business queueing them to download to all of my Kindle devices automatically, when all I wanted to do was send them to my archive to download as I see fit.

Check to see which of your devices you have the books physically on and then see how many downloads you have remaining on your Pottermore account.

[soulsteelgray]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

She could have sold the books trhough Amazon, BN, Sony, Kobo (I see that they did not work a deal with Kobo by the way), and other stores without giving up any of her rights. There was no need to sell through her own store other than her desire to be more controlling then needed.

Originally Posted by soulsteelgray

Was it a little extreme to have Pottermore be the go-to source to purchase the Harry Potter books? Sure; after all, Reznor's post-Interscope works are available on iTunes and Amazon. But Reznor also hasn't set up something the likes of Pottermore where it's ostensibly supposed to be the Harry Potter site.

Also, who's to say that the prices wouldn't be even higher if the publishers had retained control over the ebooks? We'll never know, but I think it's a fine deal for the ebooks to sell for less than MSRP on their paperback counterparts--even if you can get them for less on Amazon because they're discounting them off the wholesale price anyways. I'm more willing to pay for an ebook through an author's direct pricing model than a publisher's pricing model. Have we forgotten the horrors of the agency model already?

Originally Posted by whitearrow

Yes... because what I really want to do every time I want to buy a book is go to a new web site and set up a new account and enter name, email, home address, credit card details, and come up with a new password that I have to keep track of. That makes so much more sense for me as a consumer.

Notice I did not support authors solely distributing their ebooks through direct sell. Rather, what I advocated was allowing authors to choose how to distribute their work without publisher interference. Some authors may want to only do direct sell, others may be a little freer with third parties. I leave it up to the authors to decide, even at the cost of consumer ease, because it's their work.

[Jean]

A person on the Amazon forums figured out a way to purchase a UK version of the books if you live in the US:

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OK. I was able to figure out how to buy the UK version of the HP books when you have a US account. You will need 2 Pottermore Store accounts. You will need your main US one to buy the book and a second UK one to get the books. So you will need 2 e-mail addresses.

1) Set up your main US account. This one will be where you buy the GB version.

2) Change the Book Language to English(GB). Not the site language, the book language.

3) You won't be able to use the buy button. Use the gift link just below the buy button.

4) Send the gift to yourself at a different e-mail address. Use UK as that gift recipients country.

5) You can now check out as normal using your US credit card.

6) Set up a second Pottermore Store account with the other email address, but this time select UK as the country of residence.

7) You will get the gift code in that email account you set when you bought the gift. Use that code to accept the gift in your second Pottermore account.

8) You will now have the UK version of the book. Go ahead and link your Amazon account and send it off to your Kindle. Even though it's a US Amazon account it works just fine. You will get Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/r...DiscussionsNew

[whitearrow]

Originally Posted by soulsteelgray

Notice I did not support authors solely distributing their ebooks through direct sell. Rather, what I advocated was allowing authors to choose how to distribute their work without publisher interference. Some authors may want to only do direct sell, others may be a little freer with third parties. I leave it up to the authors to decide, even at the cost of consumer ease, because it's their work.

And what about the crazypants authors who believe that selling legal ebooks = piracy, when in fact the reverse is more likely to be true?

Look, they have the right not to sell the digital rights at all, of course. But if the publishers insist on it as part of making a deal to publish in the first place, that's between authors and publishers. My only interest as a consumer is in what you call "consumer ease" and any author who decides it's not important makes that decision at her own peril.

[whitearrow]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Check to see which of your devices you have the books physically on and then see how many downloads you have remaining on your Pottermore account.

As far as I can tell it's not having any impact on the number of downloads remaining at Pottermore. It really would be extraordinary if Amazon agreed to push this data back and forth.

That said, I'm still annoyed I wasn't allowed to choose which devices I wanted the books sent to.

[Toxaris]

We have partnered with the following services to make it easy to send your Harry Potter eBook to your account. (Subject to reading service availability in your country.)

• Sony Reader online account (US and Canadian based customers only)
• Amazon Kindle (available in most countries)
• Barnes & Noble NOOK (US and Canadian based customers only)
• Google Play (This service is currently available in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States)

That is crap. That means that I am forced to get the Kindle version and then have to convert to ePUB. Why oh why?
I really dislike geo-restrictions.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by whitearrow

As far as I can tell it's not having any impact on the number of downloads remaining at Pottermore.

That's good. Then I wonder what they consider a download to be?

[Synamon]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

That is crap. That means that I am forced to get the Kindle version and then have to convert to ePUB. Why oh why?
I really dislike geo-restrictions.

You can download an epub directly from the Pottermore site.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

That is crap. That means that I am forced to get the Kindle version and then have to convert to ePUB. Why oh why?
I really dislike geo-restrictions.

If you can buy the "kindle version" you can get an epub as well. The sales aren't done through Amazon, their done at the Pottermore site. Can't say if their restricted for your country or not though.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Someone on Kindle Boards posted that they were not able to buy them in Canada. So they appear to be georestricted.

Which makes no freaking sense.

And I know someone in Canada who said he was able to get the US version in ePub. So really, they are for sale in Canada.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Someone on Kindle Boards posted that they were not able to buy them in Canada. So they appear to be georestricted.

Which makes no freaking sense.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

And I know someone in Canada who said he was able to get the US version in ePub. So really, they are for sale in Canada.

Great! So you can buy the Kindle ePub in Canada?