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Hieronymous Alloy posted:My copy of Broken Homes has shipped! And it will get here from Amazon.co.uk sometime next week =( Mine should be here tomorrow 
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Can I buy a Kindle version from amazon.uk and use it on my filthy American Kindle? EDIT: What point does this regional bullshit serve anyway?
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Jul 24, 2013 18:04
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Loving Life Partner posted:Can I buy a Kindle version from amazon.uk and use it on my filthy American Kindle? If I had to guess, I'd say different copyright laws in different countries have something to do with it, but IANAL. Alternately different pricing in different countries - my "do not use outside of India" edition of my electrodynamics book in undergrad cost me five bucks used, the cheapest US edition was eighty. New they were like $20 and 160$, respectively
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Jul 24, 2013 18:25
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It's probably different distributors handling the physical versions in the different countries. From his blog it sounds like he missed the deadline for simultaneous UK/US release and there weren't any US slots left open.
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Jul 24, 2013 18:38
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Loving Life Partner posted:Can I buy a Kindle version from amazon.uk and use it on my filthy American Kindle?
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Jul 24, 2013 20:51
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Is the Alex Verus series any good?
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Jul 24, 2013 23:57
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Thunderfinger posted:Is the Alex Verus series any good? Yes. It has some growing pains, but definitely worth the read.
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Jul 25, 2013 00:06
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Thunderfinger posted:Is the Alex Verus series any good? Decent enough and a lot better than most of the urban fantasy dreck out there.
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SmokinDan posted:Decent enough and a lot better than most of the urban fantasy dreck out there. And it has brute forcing of conversation trees. No, really.
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Jul 25, 2013 00:55
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Fellwenner posted:You should all read this, it's fantastic. I am so glad I checked the end posts for this thread, since I hadn't in 2,000 or so, because holy crap is this amazing. I literally spent the whole time I was awake yesterday reading this, and I haven't even made a dent.
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Jul 25, 2013 01:10
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The Alex Verus series is a fun read, and does a good job limiting the power level of a guy who can see the future. The only thing I always roll my eye at is the at he couldn't come up with a better name for his evil mage faction than dark mages.
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Jul 25, 2013 01:12
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OneTwentySix posted:I am so glad I checked the end posts for this thread, since I hadn't in 2,000 or so, because holy crap is this amazing. I literally spent the whole time I was awake yesterday reading this, and I haven't even made a dent. I started reading it literally the day he posted that, and I just finally caught up yesterday. I was expecting a short story at first. Worth it though.
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Jul 25, 2013 01:31
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Fellwenner posted:You should all read this, it's fantastic. Thank you for linking me to this, I've been thoroughly enjoying it for the last week and it just seems to get better the farther I get into it. The fight scenes especially are really creative while also being easy to understand. I just wish I could convince my friends to read it too so I'd have someone to talk about it with.
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Jul 25, 2013 02:23
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:My copy of Broken Homes has shipped! And it will get here from Amazon.co.uk sometime next week =( Mine shipped last week. I got it from Goldsboro Books, though.
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Jul 25, 2013 03:59
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Finished Broken Homes. Minor spoilers: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Felt the pacing wasn't quite up to the standard of the previous books, but I devoured it in six hours anyway.
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Jul 25, 2013 08:00
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Loving Life Partner posted:Can I buy a Kindle version from amazon.uk and use it on my filthy American Kindle? I added some fake UK address into Amazon/Kindle and used a UK proxy and it worked.
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Jul 25, 2013 11:33
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The problem with changing your kindle address like that is that it's a little risky:quote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/oct/22/amazon-wipes-customers-kindle-deletes-account So, probably not worth it just for a quicker release date. I don't think Amazon really polices this stuff heavily but it's a scary possibility.
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Jul 25, 2013 14:13
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The problem with changing your kindle address like that is that it's a little risky: poo poo like this is why I like the Nook. Can't take my .epubs from me 
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Jul 25, 2013 14:30
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VanSandman posted:poo poo like this is why I like the Nook. Can't take my .epubs from me Well, the kindle can still accept drm-free books, you just have to break the DRM or download them independently of Amazon; .azw and .mobi are the exact same format with a different file extension name. But still the draw of the kindle is the general convenience of the kindle store, and losing that would be a huge pain. It's only really annoying for stuff like this, but about once a year I run into a similar situation where some niche british fantasy author I love doesn't have a US publisher or something and it drives me up the wall. (The Shadows of the Apt series has this problem also).
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Jul 25, 2013 14:40
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Well, the kindle can still accept drm-free books, you just have to break the DRM or download them independently of Amazon; .azw and .mobi are the exact same format with a different file extension name. But still the draw of the kindle is the general convenience of the kindle store, and losing that would be a huge pain. It's only really annoying for stuff like this, but about once a year I run into a similar situation where some niche british fantasy author I love doesn't have a US publisher or something and it drives me up the wall. (The Shadows of the Apt series has this problem also). It's just so loving dated. Who needs a "US" publisher for an online distribution of a UK-written, English language novel? Sure, I can see a desire to remove "britishisms" that might be too obscure, but it seems to me a ridiculous reason to block publication of the British version. I can't wait for traditional publishers to either die or realize they need to adapt to the times.
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Velius posted:It's just so loving dated. Who needs a "US" publisher for an online distribution of a UK-written, English language novel? Sure, I can see a desire to remove "britishisms" that might be too obscure, but it seems to me a ridiculous reason to block publication of the British version. I can't wait for traditional publishers to either die or realize they need to adapt to the times. Yeah. And lets' face it, if you're an American buying obscure British novelists you probably regard the britishism as a feature, not a bug. It's just an artifact of publishing empires, nothing more. Half the time the only reason for different release dates is that the UK and US bestseller lists run from different dates so the US release is on a Tuesday and the British is (some other day of the week?).
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There's also the possibility that the publisher did not gain rights from the author or whatever to sell to the region in question, because those rights belong to another publisher for whatever reason. Yeah makes no sense to me.
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coffeetable posted:Finished Broken Homes. Minor spoilers: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Side-note but the Waterstones-exclusive short story was the slightest of all them so far, though I'm still hoping for some sort of short-story collection at some point because I don't have any of the rest, I've just read them in my local Waterstones. It was worth going to the signing at Covent Garden though as there really was free cake and booze!
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Jesus Christ, we don't get the Kindle edition of Broken Homes in the US until 2014. 
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Wade Wilson posted:Jesus Christ, we don't get the Kindle edition of Broken Homes in the US until 2014. Flip your address to the UK, buy it, flip back.
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ookiimarukochan posted:Side-note but the Waterstones-exclusive short story was the slightest of all them so far, though I'm still hoping for some sort of short-story collection at some point because I don't have any of the rest, I've just read them in my local Waterstones. It was worth going to the signing at Covent Garden though as there really was free cake and booze! Wait, there are Peter Grant short stories? And I can't get them in America? THANKS OBAMA
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Wait, there are Peter Grant short stories? And I can't get them in America? THANKS OBAMA There are several different books out there with "Waterstones editions" with extra stuff that only that edition has - Dodger by Terry Pratchett for instance. That even had a limited slipcase edition. I suppose it's due to Waterstones being the only real game for publishers in the UK that's not Amazon. You see similar crazily how-is-this-not-illegal monopolistic stuff with videogames and Game. Apparently there'll be a short story collection at some point, though (going by comments made last year on his blog - long enough ago he still though he was going to finish the new book on time!)
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ookiimarukochan posted:3 of them - 2 of them came out last year (in the "London edition" of Rivers of London - which I assume was never made available outside the M25, haha and in the Waterstones edition of Whispers Under Ground (which I didn't get because I went to the Forbidden Planet signing, where he gave a speech/presentation) I am about to poo poo teeth and snort out kidney stones in frustration and anger >_<. What are the titles? Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jul 25, 2013 |
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Jul 25, 2013 21:18
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I keep getting Laundry Files and Rivers of London confused. God damnit you British people.
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If there's one thing I hate about the Jim butcher it's his insistence of describing Dresden's relationship with Molly in regards to her breast size. I swear to god if he doesn't knock that "training bra" poo poo off I am going to send him just the nastiest worded letter. I'm sorry, just rereading some of these and goddamn does he use that one a whole loving lot.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I am about to poo poo teeth and snort out kidney stones in frustration and anger >_<. What are the titles? The Domestic, The Home Crowd Advantage, and The Cockpit - as far as I know none of them are available online in any way shape or form, you'll have to visit the UK!
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Dammit people, making me give up my Prime shipping to get Broken Homes early from Book Depository  ...and the book still won't show up for a goddamn month. What the hell?
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404GoonNotFound posted:Dammit people, making me give up my Prime shipping to get Broken Homes early from Book Depository Pro purchase.
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Jul 26, 2013 02:28
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Any idea A) how long this will be in stock & B) how long it takes to ship? Because I'm not sure if/how long it'll take to cancel my order with The Book Depository via Amazon 
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404GoonNotFound posted:Any idea A) how long this will be in stock & B) how long it takes to ship? Because I'm not sure if/how long it'll take to cancel my order with The Book Depository via Amazon It probably won't be in stock much longer - honestly I'm surprised it made it to the publication date without selling out. As far as shipping time, this is my first order with Goldsboro so I'm not sure, but I imagine it'll be similar to TBD's shipping times. Two things to note: 1.) The price is in pounds, so that comes out to like $25 or something. 2.) Goldsboro doesn't do free shipping. All told, my order was $33.03 when it was processed on the 21st, which is a lot more than most folks are used to paying for a book. I'm putting this out there because I don't want anyone screaming at me later when they see their credit card bill  .
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Ornamented Death posted:It probably won't be in stock much longer - honestly I'm surprised it made it to the publication date without selling out. As far as shipping time, this is my first order with Goldsboro so I'm not sure, but I imagine it'll be similar to TBD's shipping times. I totally checked the exchange rates for this. There's an Irish reseller on Amazon selling for ~$16 + $4 shipping, but for $13 more I can have a signed copy. What to do?! Edit: gently caress it, it's done.
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Tres Burritos posted:If there's one thing I hate about the Jim butcher it's his insistence of describing Dresden's relationship with Molly in regards to her breast size. I swear to god if he doesn't knock that "training bra" poo poo off I am going to send him just the nastiest worded letter. Thats something that gets mildy annoying with every character. Butcher describes them in detail every single loving book and he uses the same descriptors pretty much every time. Molly specifically though, I think that has to do with Dresden's character more than anything else. He's a normal guy as far as his libido goes, but his lifestyle post-Susan is lacking in opportunities to use it. Its gotta be tough to constantly have a hot barely legal chick around that has a crush on you when youre a good guy like Dresden who isn't looking to take advantage. He is a good guy but still only human.
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Jul 26, 2013 21:17
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 New short story from Jim Butcher for Dangerous Women Read the excerpt here
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Wow. I shouldn't have read that. Now I have to wait for the rest. great to see a Molly story, and I really like her narration style.
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That's the GRRM one that also has a new Brandon Sanderson short, right?
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