[Dragaera] I CAN HAZ KINDLE VERSION? NO! NOT YOURS!

[Erzsébet of Catspirit Wood]

Use a credit card to buy an Amazon gift certificate at Amazon US. Then 
use the gift certificate to buy the kindle book.

http://www.labnol.org/gadgets/buy-amazon-kindle-books-magazines-outside-us/4022/

Contact me off-list if you need more help.

Elizabeth

Steve Rapaport wrote:
> Very frustrated here in the UK.    Copy of my letter to Tor follows.  Any
> input from knowledgeable folks appreciated.
> 
> Tor Books
> Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
> 175 Fifth Avenue
> New York, NY 10010
> 
> Dear Tor Books:
> 
> I am a long-time customer of your books and a long-time fan of such amazing
> authors as Steven Brust.  I seldom take time to write anyone on dead trees,
> but I was aghast today when I tried to get the jump on a slow mailing of
> Brust's new Iorich by downloading it on my Kindle.  I could not!  In fact,
> here in the UK where I now live, not a *single* Brust book is available on
> my Kindle, though there are Kindle editions available in the US for many of
> them.
> 
> I can buy the same books in hardcover or paperback on Amazon.co.uk.  I can
> order them shipped direct from the US.  And if I live in the US I can
> download them instantly to my Kindle.  But I can't do that here.
> 
> Is this a horrendous oversight on your part, or a copyright law snafu that
> I'll grasp my head and scream when you detail it to me?  Either way, please
> do, I'm sure it will be entertaining to hear about.
> 
> If it's just an oversight, please correct it immediately.  I want to buy the
> digital books, Amazon wants to sell them to me, and the pitiful royalties
> they pass back to you must be acceptable since you're already allowing it in
> the US.
> 
> If it's some horrible corollary to the DMCA, please explain why I can buy
> the same book in digital format in the US but not here, and the same book on
> paper here, but not that book in digital format, in the UK.  I am agitated,
> horrified, frustrated and angry.
> 
> It's not just one book, it's an entire author, possibly an entire
> publisher.  And it's not just you either.  I've tried with many of my
> favorite authors and publishers and experienced the same roadblock.  It
> makes my Kindle close to useless here.  The selection that remains to me is,
> in a word, pitiful.  I called Amazon and they assured me it's the
> publisher's choice to make these restrictions, not their own.  I believe
> them.  But I can't understand it.
> 
> Can you please clarify, without waffling or weasling, why exactly you're
> stopping me from handing you money?  If it's a stupid law, can you explain
> who in your organization is responsible for lobbying your government to have
> it altered?
> 
> Thanks very much and best regards,
> 
> Steve Rapaport.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Erzsébet of Catspirit Wood
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