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 Looks like Amazon is getting sick of raging hate-mailers.
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dont eat a carb posted:
They've been putting that line up on those books for years now.
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May 5, 2011 04:45
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fishmech posted:They've been putting that line up on those books for years now. Also, when the price is set by the publisher, it's listed under "New from" like a marketplace price, rather than "Amazon Price". When it's set by Amazon, it's under "Amazon Price".
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May 5, 2011 05:24
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Inkmesh lets me know that Amazon.com are selling Game of Thrones for $5 (Can someone confirm this? It won't show me the price because I'm in the UK), whereas Amazon.co.uk is selling it for £5.49. Quite a difference in price - is there any way I can buy books from a US source (Where I suspect they're generally cheaper), and remove the DRM so they can be put on my Kindle? Or is that too illegal for me to ask about here?
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May 5, 2011 09:59
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Apparently the Kindle editions of the GRRM books are not worth it, as rather than being produced from the original text, they are unedited OCR scans of the books (and as a result full of errors and bad formatting) Blame the publisher for doing a shoddy job, blame Amazon for tolerating it.
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May 5, 2011 10:02
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dont eat a carb posted:Apparently the Kindle editions of the GRRM books are not worth it, as rather than being produced from the original text, they are unedited OCR scans of the books (and as a result full of errors and bad formatting) Oh, I already own the GRRM books - that was just an example of the money I could save if there was a US store which let international customers purchase from them.
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May 5, 2011 10:47
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Centipeed posted:Inkmesh lets me know that Amazon.com are selling Game of Thrones for $5 (Can someone confirm this? It won't show me the price because I'm in the UK), whereas Amazon.co.uk is selling it for £5.49. There's a "Buy As A Gift" button, maybe somebody could gift you a US copy? e: \/\/\/\/\/\/ it seems like lots of the time the reviews wind up getting all piled together, too, which makes it harder than it should be to find a decent version. Arnold of Soissons fucked around with this message at 14:02 on May 5, 2011 |
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May 5, 2011 13:03
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Speaking of, the cheap classics have a huge variety in quality. I've tried some that were absolutely unreadable (the worst one was in an unchangeable giant font and all caps with footnotes just dropped into the text with no warning). On the other hand, I have a Complete Works of Shakespeare and a version of Tropic of Capricorn that both cost $1 and are both formatted perfectly. I wish Amazon did some quality control so I didn't have to try a ton of samples to find the ones that are competently made.
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May 5, 2011 13:47
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Arnold of Soissons posted:There's a "Buy As A Gift" button, maybe somebody could gift you a US copy? Does this work between US and UK accounts? Because there's a book I want on the Kindle UK store, I'd be happy to do a swap if it works. PM me if you wanna try! edit: Google says quote:Yup, you can gift to someone anywhere in the world off the US site, even if they can't shop on the US site.
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May 5, 2011 14:10
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dont eat a carb posted:
Also, beware, if you're not used to paying tax on amazon, most of the publisher set prices tack on tax afterwords.
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May 5, 2011 14:50
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dont eat a carb posted:Apparently the Kindle editions of the GRRM books are not worth it, as rather than being produced from the original text, they are unedited OCR scans of the books (and as a result full of errors and bad formatting) That's weird, the BN versions are great. They had Game of Thrones for $1 a few weeks ago, so I decided to check it out. I liked it enough that I bought the other three.
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May 5, 2011 14:53
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Ara posted:Does this work between US and UK accounts? Because there's a book I want on the Kindle UK store, I'd be happy to do a swap if it works. PM me if you wanna try! If this is true maybe we should make an ebook swap thread in SAMart. Will probably use copious amounts of                  
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May 5, 2011 15:04
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The Aphasian posted:If this is true maybe we should make an ebook swap thread in SAMart. Will probably use copious amounts of I'd be into this. About 1 in 3 books I want to buy aren't available for Australians. I know there are ways around this but they all seem pretty dodgy to me. Why can't I buy Harpo Speaks, It's the best autobiography ever written by anyone who has ever breathed! 
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May 5, 2011 15:44
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SlightButSteady posted:I'd be into this. About 1 in 3 books I want to buy aren't available for Australians. I know there are ways around this but they all seem pretty dodgy to me. I'll send you a pm. We can see if this really works.
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May 5, 2011 15:53
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Surely everyone would just be asking a small number of US goons to gift books, much like how it happens with Steam sales, and Amazon will notice?
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May 5, 2011 15:55
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Centipeed posted:Surely everyone would just be asking a small number of US goons to gift books, much like how it happens with Steam sales, and Amazon will notice? Amazon only cares as much as the publishers force them too. They would much rather sell stuff to anyone in the world who wants it without having to stick to bunch of antiquated agreements controlling who is allowed to print which books in what country.
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May 5, 2011 16:04
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Centipeed posted:Surely everyone would just be asking a small number of US goons to gift books, much like how it happens with Steam sales, and Amazon will notice? Will Amazon care? Either way, if anybody in the UK wants to gift-trade something roughly equivalent in value to this from the US store then throw me a PM!
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May 5, 2011 16:05
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Trig Discipline posted:That's weird, the BN versions are great. They had Game of Thrones for $1 a few weeks ago, so I decided to check it out. I liked it enough that I bought the other three. How did I miss $1 Game of Thrones ? I've been waiting for the series to go on sale, so I could rebuy the digital version to reread before the next book comes out later this year. How'd you find out it was on sale or did you just happen to discover it?
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May 5, 2011 16:12
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dont eat a carb posted:Apparently the Kindle editions of the GRRM books are not worth it, as rather than being produced from the original text, they are unedited OCR scans of the books (and as a result full of errors and bad formatting) I just finished Game of Thrones on the Kindle, and I didn't see any errors or anything, maybe its been updates since the reports of that issue. The only bad formating was the list of families and characters in the back of the book, there was a few errors there in indentation.
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May 5, 2011 18:02
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Amazon.com Kindle gifting posted:Title availability may vary by country. If this title isn't available for your gift recipient, we will exchange your gift for an equivalent value Amazon.com gift card. Dammit.
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May 5, 2011 18:07
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KaLogain posted:I just finished Game of Thrones on the Kindle, and I didn't see any errors or anything, maybe its been updates since the reports of that issue. The only bad formating was the list of families and characters in the back of the book, there was a few errors there in indentation. The only error I've noticed so far on mine was "surnmerwine" instead of "summerwine," I saw that and said OCR!
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May 5, 2011 18:09
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Yeah, I've been reading them, it's been fine. Nothing's stuck out but I'm not looking for errors I guess either.
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May 5, 2011 18:56
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I was just gifted a kindle 3 by my friend and have been playing around with it for a day or two. It's an incredible little gadget and I've transferred most of the stuff I was reading onto it. So far everything is great, even scientific publications in PDF. I didn't expect to be able to view a page in full so landscape works fine. The only problem is having to rotate the screen everytime I encounter a graph or some data that can only be seen fully in portrait. I can't find a shortcut for rotating a document or an option to set shortcuts so I have to go through the little menu which is about 5 to 6 button presses to rotate the document. For the image viewer, the shortcuts listed on most sites like 'Q, E, R' etc don't work at all. Do these even exist or did I miss something?
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May 5, 2011 20:01
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"based on your last Nookbook purchases, Barnes and Nobles recommends... (the list of books I just bought)"  So I should buy the same things a second time? How can bn suck so badly at this?
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May 5, 2011 21:22
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boo_radley posted:"based on your last Nookbook purchases, Barnes and Nobles recommends... (the list of books I just bought)" My issue with them is... "Based on your last nookBook purchases of SciFi and textbooks, Barnes and Noble recommends... lots of gay erotic novels"
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May 6, 2011 05:01
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The price of the Kindle version costs more than the paperback on every book I'm interested in. gently caress you publishers
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May 6, 2011 06:07
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Calibre 0.8 is out today! I'm really excited about this feature: "Metadata plugboards: Have calibre automatically transform the metadata of files when sending to device. For example, you can ask calibre to append the series to the title, in case your device does not support series metadata. See Preferences->Metadata plugboards" I had just been putting the series name in the title of the book, but this will be much better and easier to work with.
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May 6, 2011 21:43
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Florida Betty posted:Calibre 0.8 is out today! I'm confused. I've had mine doing this for months.
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May 7, 2011 02:09
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The Aphasian posted:I'm confused. I've had mine doing this for months. They changed something about it. The annoying part is there isn't a separate field for isbn, now you have to put the isbn as "isbn:728687168761" in the IDs field.
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May 7, 2011 02:36
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I'm looking for a reader that I'll mainly be using for PDF books. My first inclination is to grab a Nook Color and root it for a nice cheap Android tablet. Is rooting still alive and well in freshly produced Nook Colors? Anything else I should consider for what I'm looking for?
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May 7, 2011 02:50
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Since we have been talking about ebook prices, I figured I would link to this inkmesh article talking about how the prices are set. A little more explenation than just that it's set by the publisher. Here is one snip. http://inkmesh.com/blog/2010/08/21/how-does-amazon-bn-and-sony-stack-up-on-ebook-prices-post-agency-model/ quote:With the advent in agency model in April 2010, a lot of retailers lost the advantage of pricing ebooks aggressively. Before the EBook Agency Model, the publisher typically offered the ebooks at 50% of the hardcover price, and then allowed the retailer to sell them for whatever price they liked. So if a book had a list price of $30, the publisher would sell it to say Amazon for $15, and in turn, Amazon might sell it for $9.99 taking a $5 loss, but attracting a lot of people to buy from them. Some wonder why Amazon would want to take a $5 loss on every ebook sold under the old arrangement. Our guess is that Amazon wants to dominate the market and basically crush the competition by making it impossible for them to compete over the long-term as well as also make money by selling more Kindle readers. Regardless of the motivation, it is a great deal for consumers and not such a great deal for authors.
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May 7, 2011 04:04
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Sperg Victorious posted:They changed something about it. The annoying part is there isn't a separate field for isbn, now you have to put the isbn as "isbn:728687168761" in the IDs field. poo poo, seriously? That is a huge pain in the rear end, I wouldn't have updated if I had seen this sooner. I'm still sorting the 60+ things I grabbed from Feedbooks this week.
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May 7, 2011 04:10
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Sperg Victorious posted:Since we have been talking about ebook prices, I figured I would link to this inkmesh article talking about how the prices are set. A little more explenation than just that it's set by the publisher. Here is one snip. The agency model was pretty much forced into existence by Apple so that publishers could get in their dumb bookstore, right? Am I remembering this wrong?
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May 7, 2011 04:59
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Sorta... When the ipad was coming out, apple started up with this WE WANT TO BE THE BESTEST EBOOK THING EVER and decided to offer an agency model, and the major publishers all went HOLY gently caress, WE CAN GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF MAKING SURE WE COMPLETELY ALIENATE CUSTOMERS! and went for it. Amazon said "Uhm... no, we kinda like the old way", and the publishers said "HAH, gently caress you and your whole store, we got APPLE now bitches!!!" and amazon took down the publishers books, and then there was a big kerfuffle and amazon did that "Price listed by publisher" thingie as a way to still sell books. That's fairly really really condensed but I think that's how it happened. The whole situation pisses me off, so I don't really wanna research it.
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May 7, 2011 06:30
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Also the iBooks store is still noticeably way more limited. Only usable on an iOS device (you can't even read in OS X), a much smaller book selection, and generally higher prices.
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May 7, 2011 08:57
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fishmech posted:Also the iBooks store is still noticeably way more limited. Only usable on an iOS device (you can't even read in OS X), a much smaller book selection, and generally higher prices. Basically the self-publishing revolution can't come quick enough.
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May 7, 2011 10:03
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Centipeed posted:Basically the self-publishing revolution can't come quick enough. Do you really want books that aren't professionally edited, or with no vetting for quality? I know I don't; I like what the publishers add to the process. I think they need to figure out what the hell they're doing in terms of pricing and that the agency model was a huge mistake, but that doesn't mean I want to see publishing houses go away.
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May 7, 2011 15:47
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Yes, that's a good point. If only there were a way for people to rate the quality of something!
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May 7, 2011 16:43
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fordan posted:Do you really want books that aren't professionally edited, or with no vetting for quality? I know I don't; I like what the publishers add to the process. I'm sure the same arguments were used when people started to record and master their own albums to release independently as well.
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May 7, 2011 16:57
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fordan posted:Do you really want books that aren't professionally edited, or with no vetting for quality? I know I don't; I like what the publishers add to the process. I think they need to figure out what the hell they're doing in terms of pricing and that the agency model was a huge mistake, but that doesn't mean I want to see publishing houses go away. Yes, because the change in the music industry so that artists generally release their own stuff has resulted in uniformly badly made products.
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May 7, 2011 17:14
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