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

[Erzsébet of Catspirit Wood]

It's also possible to transfer Mobipocket files to the Kindle, though 
Amazon doesn't support this.

http://igorsk.blogspot.com/2007/12/mobipocket-books-on-kindle.html

Note that this does not remove the DRM, and hence should be legal.

Elizabeth

Margaret Young wrote:
> I am on holiday outside the US and I bought my electronic edition from
> Mobipocket (www.mobipocket.com). A mobipocket reader can be downloaded for
> free and you could read the book on your computer.
> 
> Want to know frustration with the kindle? The entire country of Canada was
> locked out from all Kindles until recently. Apparently Senegal got Kindles
> before Canada.
> 
> Margaret
> 
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Steve Rapaport <steve at rapaport.com> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> \Steve
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