Problems accessing google play book purchases.
-
@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.
-
@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.
-
@sniper_samurai What are you talking about? They were pulled from the American store too.
-
@legitpancake I was unaware that Yen Press have now pulled their books from the US Play Books storefront as well.
-
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).
-
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;
~Isto -
I"m kinda regretting posting that link now since it seems I derailed this thread by accident.
-
@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.
~Isto -
@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.
-
This post is deleted! -
@istolla In a worst case scenario you can probably get vol 9 and 10 through Bookwalker when they come out.
-
@eternal-wanderer
Apparently Kobo also has them listed, while again, I don't have either kobo or kindle device.. Kobo at least lists it directly in CAD an while slightly cheaper than dealing with exchange rates through amzon/visa.. is still bit too much $ to do in one go for my wallet. 1 to 8 at kobo's cost is 79 bucks an change. 1 through 10 with 9 & 10 being pre-orders, would be 1 cent shy of 100 lol. ;w;
Thanks for the suggestion though, I hadn't heard of that site. :3
~Isto. -
I use a Samsung Galaxy tab s3 I can see the preview of the book just fine but when I buy it it never gets past the little loading screen and the strange part it's only for the in another world with my smartphone series after book 5
-
@bhostetler There's something wrong with some portion of our books. I think you can read them fine on a desktop browser though at least, but mobile seems broken for some selection of the books.
I contacted google a couple days ago and they said someone was investigating but haven't heard back.
-
On the Yen Press situation:
Yen Press (@yenpress) Tweeted:
@GRNKRBY Our series are currently getting updated by Google, and will appear as 'unavailable' until the process is over. We are hoping to have everything back up shortly. https://twitter.com/yenpress/status/1020013729222623234?s=17
