Problems accessing google play book purchases.
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File error
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I think the Dendro 2 file is maybe broken. I got the preview, and it was funky compared to other previews.
It starts from the end page (where you can buy it), then you have to thumb through to get back to page 1 of the preview... But when you reach page 1, an error occurs and it force closes. It's done this on two different Android devices.
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@bhostetler hello, can you be more specific about which book it is?
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Looking at the reviews, its affecting multiple books.
How Not to Summon a Demon Lord 2-3
Smartphone 6-8
Arifureta
Grimgar 6
That's all I found on the front page. Likely more affected if they didn't leave reviews.
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@village-idiot Oh great...
Well we uploaded them to google enmasse... I don't have time to deal with it immediately. I'll see if I can't look at it tonight.
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I can't see an issue in the preview for me, at least on the browser preview.
If there is an issue with the android preview, I'll need to try it on a phone I have.It's weird, sounds like some kind of google problem since the files seem fine from my end.
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This might not just be an issue with JNovelclubs books https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/8y2a19/all_yen_press_titles_disappeared_from_google_books/
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I’ve contacted google support and they are investigating.
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@eternal-wanderer That's Yen Press being asses. Not the first time they've pulled all their books for countries outside North America without warning, now it seems they've even pulled all their books from the Canadian Play Store.
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@sniper_samurai said in Problems accessing google play book purchases.:
@eternal-wanderer That's Yen Press being asses. Not the first time they've pulled all their books for countries outside North America without warning, now it seems they've even pulled all their books from the Canadian Play Store.
Is there any reason why Yen Press seems so reluctant to sell outside the US, even when they did so previously? I still haven't really forgiven them for pulling Devil Is A Part-Timer from my country literally a week before I got enough money to buy the digital ebooks from Amazon.
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@unsynchedcheese I don't know, at least the Yen Press books are still available in my country on other store fronts.
Would prefer to use Play Books though as I could pay with prepaid phone credit as my carrier is ridiculously generous. A €20 top up every 28 days gives me unlimited data, texts and calls to the same carrier and I get to keep the €20 credit to spend on anything else like Play Store purchases.
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@sniper_samurai What are you talking about? They were pulled from the American store too.
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@legitpancake I was unaware that Yen Press have now pulled their books from the US Play Books storefront as well.
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Wow. Yen pulled their books? Just pulling out of Google Play market? =[
This must have been pretty sudden because they had pages for future volumes.
I might seriously have to get a Kindle device now to have my Yen On digital books read aloud (can't trust Nook when Barnes and Noble is so iffy on continuing to exist too).
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Gez thats not good.. I've had my eye on "The Irregular at Magic High School" for ages.. its being done by Yen.
Is it just google play/book market they are being yanked from?
I'm from Canada (west coast) an any time I look up a ebook on most sites I get redirected to the USA version.Like with amazon, it's like their ebooks are only sold through the USA end..
either way..said amazon usa still lists Vol 1 through 8 with a pre order listings for 9 and 10.
but being USA its 7.99 USD each & in CAD at this direct moment 10.53 a peace, so x 8 would be 84.24 ... with potentially no guarantee that 9, 10 or any other volume might actually come if Yen-press are being pulling things. ;w;
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I"m kinda regretting posting that link now since it seems I derailed this thread by accident.
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@eternal-wanderer
Mn I get what ye mean, though I feel it's still on topic to a point.. it has certainly gotten a bit side tracked but the link was related to the topic and the follow ups, including my own were related to the link..
Nearly everyone besides myself is still talking bout the Google shop.. I brought up Amazon because that was the first site that came up when I googled for the particular book, from Yen-Press, I'm most worried about disappearing.
Edit: I don't even have a kindle so, not sure how I'd download/read/get those anyway.. think they have a desktop/phone app but still. XDbesides that, we're all still waiting on @Sam-Pinansky to get back us on what they find out, who themselves, is waiting on google.
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@istolla Yup. No word from google. I've also checked that things seem unaccessible on mobile but they seem fine on a browser, and none of them had any errors when uploading, so just need to wait for technical support to research.
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@istolla In a worst case scenario you can probably get vol 9 and 10 through Bookwalker when they come out.
