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Old 01-03-2014, 06:53 AM   #1
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I have been receiving the Kindle Daily deal for some time and have bought a large number of books that way. Today I want to buy The Medicinal Chef by Dale Pinnock and I find that they will not deliver this to my Kindle 4. They will only deliver to a Kindle Paperwhite or an app on an Android device. They will not even deliver it to my Kindle app on my PC. I have had a few Android devices and still use one of them but I find them too heavy for reading ebooks.
What is Kindle up to now with this new trick? Are they trying to force me to buy a Paperwhite? I have just bought a Pocketbook touch lux from Amazon, which is frankly much better than the Paperwhite, so I have no need of a Paperwhite.
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I doubt they're up to much of anything. They've always had certain editions of ebooks that were limited to certain devices/apps. Or possibly it's a glitch?

I can't even buy an ebook version of The Medicinal Chef by Dale Pinnock from Amazon in my market.
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I have been receiving the Kindle Daily deal for some time and have bought a large number of books that way. Today I want to buy The Medicinal Chef by Dale Pinnock and I find that they will not deliver this to my Kindle 4. They will only deliver to a Kindle Paperwhite or an app on an Android device. They will not even deliver it to my Kindle app on my PC. I have had a few Android devices and still use one of them but I find them too heavy for reading ebooks.
What is Kindle up to now with this new trick? Are they trying to force me to buy a Paperwhite? I have just bought a Pocketbook touch lux from Amazon, which is frankly much better than the Paperwhite, so I have no need of a Paperwhite.
Not new.
Certain books have always been limited to certain Kindle apps or devices.
Not many, but they exist.
It is because their reader apps and devices don't all have the same features.
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Old 01-03-2014, 07:17 AM   #4
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I doubt they're up to much of anything. They've always had certain editions of ebooks that were limited to certain devices/apps. Or possibly it's a glitch?

I can't even buy an ebook version of The Medicinal Chef by Dale Pinnock from Amazon in my market.
I cannot see the Kindle edition either, so I think it's a glitch.
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What is Kindle up to now with this new trick? Are they trying to force me to buy a Paperwhite? I have just bought a Pocketbook touch lux from Amazon, which is frankly much better than the Paperwhite, so I have no need of a Paperwhite.
This is absolutely nothing new. Some books are limited to specific devices because of the features the book has. This will ALWAYS be specified in the description of the book at Amazon. Return it for a refund if it won't work on your Kindle, and check in the future before you buy.
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I cannot see the Kindle edition either, so I think it's a glitch.
No reason to think that. Lots of books are not available in certain markets. It is available at Amazon UK, and clearly specified as only working on certain devices:
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Some have told me tha these restrictions are due to formating troubbles. Amazon has not been able to get the book to look quite right on the PC app and the company uses restrictions to limit the book to devices where they have gotten the formating right and will open it up to more divices once they get the formating right.
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Old 01-03-2014, 09:30 AM   #9
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Nah! I'll just stop buying ebooks from Amazon. I've already unsubscribed from the daily deal.
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Nah! I'll just stop buying ebooks from Amazon. I've already unsubscribed from the daily deal.
You're going to stop buying books from Amazon because it's too much effort to see what devices a book is supported on before you buy it?

The number of books that are restricted is very small, and is basically those which use fixed layouts (that's what the issue with this one is, almost certainly) or have embedded multimedia.
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This is absolutely nothing new. Some books are limited to specific devices because of the features the book has.
All I want from an ebook is words. Is that asking too much? The images on a Kindle ereader aren't worth having. I have bought about 200 books from the Kindle store. In future I'll look elsewhere.
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Some have told me tha these restrictions are due to formating troubbles. Amazon has not been able to get the book to look quite right on the PC app and the company uses restrictions to limit the book to devices where they have gotten the formating right and will open it up to more divices once they get the formating right.
Umm, not allowing those on PC is certainly very strange. Or maybe they are just very lazy with that software. It should be the easiest platform to force the look. Or are they just lacking in quality...
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You're going to stop buying books from Amazon because it's too much effort to see what devices a book is supported on before you buy it?
That's what I said. I didn't buy the book but I did want to buy it. I have found it elsewhere now but in the epub format which will suit my other devices. Was it too much effort to read my post properly?
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All I want from an ebook is words. Is that asking too much? The images on a Kindle ereader aren't worth having. I have bought about 200 books from the Kindle store. In future I'll look elsewhere.
This is a cookery book - a "picture book". Picture books are almost always device-restricted; normal fiction is not. It seems like a case of "cutting off your nose to spite your face" to abandon Amazon because of the fact that a very small number of books are limited in what devices they can be read on, especially when they actually TELL you that if you take the trouble to look before buying.
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All I want from an ebook is words. Is that asking too much? The images on a Kindle ereader aren't worth having. I have bought about 200 books from the Kindle store. In future I'll look elsewhere.
That's the problem. You might not care for the pictures but as soon as they take them out people will complain that the pictures and special formatting are not there.

Also, formatting is much more a problem with the publisher than with Amazon. Publishers choose to format their books a certain way and they don't always jive with every kindle app or device.

So, what Amazon does is just not sell it to people for devices that won't display it the way the publisher formatted it. To me, this is ethical business as I wouldn't want to buy a book and find it to be completely jumbled garbage.
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