I Shall Survive Using Potions! Vol 2 and Vol 3 English translations missing from Amazon.

Ryan Page.f40j0ub

As previously mentioned, volumes 2 and 3 of "I Shall Survive Using Potions!" are missing from Amazon (U.S. English eBook).

This can be seen by visiting the light fiction series page for Amazon customers in the U.S. at:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0966SKVX3?binding=kindle_edition&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tkin

I read volume 1, but the next one available through Amazon is currently volume 4.

Rahul Balaggan

Thank you for letting us know. Unfortunately, Amazon has a long history of removing our books from their platform and being unresponsive about putting them back up for sale. We will begin the process of getting them re-listed. We apologize for the inconvenience, but if you are looking to read the series then you may wish to consider another ebook store as Amazon does not provide us with any time estimates for these matters.

We do sell the ebooks on our website; when you purchase directly from J-Novel Club, you can download an EPUB file which can be uploaded to your Kindle library.

HarmlessDave

Calibre is truly free (not even ads) for Windows, macOS and Linux and can copy a DRM-free ebook purchased from the JNC store to your kindle with a couple of clicks: https://calibre-ebook.com/

Buy book, download epub file
Run Calibre
Click "add to library" and browser to downloaded file
Attach kindle to PC, mac or linux device with USB cable if not already attached
Click "send to device" and wait a few seconds

....and you're ready to read.

Also, the JNC versions of many books include bonus short stories. The Japanese publishers let JNC include some of the promo stories normally exclusive to Japanese bookstores in the JNC direct edition. See: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/4902/premium-e-book-bonus-contents-list-updated-february-13-2024/

For Potions:

Volumes 1- 7, 9: Textless Color Illustrations
Volume 8: 2 Bonus Short Stories & Textless Color Illustrations

Kaoru's Sweet Lesson
The Woman Named Kaoru Nagase

Elijah203223

@Rahul-Balaggan please don't even bother if Amazon demands changes like they did with hanashi media. It's not worth it because it will disrespectful to the author and their vision

jpwong

@Elijah203223 I seriously doubt that JNC would bother to create an "amazon" version of their LNs. They already pull down entire series from the platform if amazon delists volume 1 of the series and won't put it back up.

admin

@Elijah203223 the most we would do is move color illustrations to the back. In any case potions being removed seems to be about something else than censorship, it seems Amazon constantly doesn't believe we have the rights for some reason.

Elijah203223

@admin really so they never did what they did to hanashi like demanding several chapters rewritten

admin

@Elijah203223 Amazon never EVER demands specific changes. The most they will ever tell you is a blanket "This work violates our TOS", and that's it.
It's to protect them from lawsuits.

In fact, Amazon employees themselves don't have access to the reasoning behind TOS violations: those decisions are made in a secretive "Content Review" team which is siloed from everyone else at amazon and no one outside that team has access to their internal procedures and rubriks. Again, to protect Amazon from lawsuits.

Now, if a work is taken down for reasons other than TOS, sometimes the emails will actually tell you in cryptic automated emails like "Your work is too similar to other work, and could cause customer confusion" is one we've gotten before.... (??????).

Or when it's a rights issue they ask you to send them documentation within 5 business days (and sometimes the emails never come or dont get forwarded to us by the ebook distributor...).

Elijah203223

@admin well hanashi media shared that on their Twitter account

myskaros

@Elijah203223 Do you have a link? That just doesn't make sense to me.

Elijah203223

@myskaros will find it for you

Elijah203223

@myskaros here is the link to the statement https://twitter.com/HanashiMedia/status/1618651574062190594

myskaros

@Elijah203223 Just to be clear, that statement does not say that Amazon demanded any rewriting, in other words it does not conflict with anything @admin wrote. Hanashi Media made a decision to modify the work, presumably with Japanese publisher and author approval, in order to adhere Amazon's content guidelines and republish the book on their platform.

Geezer Weasalopes

There's more recent information on Hanashi's Discord. (A post dated 4/26/2023 in the title discussion channel)
In the end they seem to have been able to satisfy Amazon by including "Sensitive Content Warnings" on certain images.
The downside being that while it works fine on a Kindle device, if using any other access method you have to have a live connection to fetch the images after confirming you are OK viewing them; they'll download as part of everything to a Kindle device, but only the warning is downloaded initially to your phone or PC.

Rahul Balaggan

Hello,

The original purpose of the topic has been served. The topic has also shifted into something else. Before any more misleading accusations start sprouting up I will be locking the topic down.

Thank you