Books/Preorders missing from Amazon
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- For books that have been affected by the Amazon situation, we are converting them all to "color images in the back" before reuploading.
- For series that are longer than ~6 volumes, we're making a separate "Amazon version" with the color images in the back. Buying it on Kindle will have color images in the back, but premium/other webstores will be in the front.
- For all ongoing, unaffected series, color images will remain in the front for the rest of the series.
- For new series that haven't had volume 1 release yet and all future new series, color images will now be in the back instead.
Basically, the only series that are being changed are the ones that have been getting taken down from Amazon and new series.
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@morbelek if they decide to only use one picture you could bet that they use the HQ one in the premium version.
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@saskir said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:
Usually the Bonus HQ images are textless and the normal ones are with text. Although I don't know every premium edition. But I am thinking about LDM etc.
Yeah, I only thought of it when I was looking through the newest bookworm epub (which I know isn't actually affected by this at all) and was just thinking that the images in the front of the book were textless and the bonus is HQ versions of the same textless images as far as I can see. Since I don't know what the Japanese vendor bonus situation is like, I was thinking it could happen down the road and it might look weird for some readers since depending on the reader you use, it literally just looks like the same images rather than a regular quality and a high quality set.
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Amazon is getting stupid now.
The manga for "Gal Gohan" and "My Monster Secret" have been removed from the Kindle store.
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@Chubby-Penguin The light novel for High School DxD has also been removed.
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I'm pretty pissed.
If every single volume of My Monster Secret can disappear without warning, then basically nothing on Kindle is safe.
Unless you can afford to get an entire series at once, it's not a viable source to get your manga and light novels anymore.
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@Chubby-Penguin hear hear! I gave up on Amazon when this first started and they refused to tell J-novel.club what was the specific reason for pulling certain titles. If they're going to be that arbitrary then I refuse to buy anything from them (unless I absolutely need to and absolutely cannot get it anywhere else, and even then I'm not sure). Fortunately I have other options for my light novel and manga needs, but I send out my sympathy for those for whom it was basically the only viable option.
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@Chubby-Penguin said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:
Amazon is getting stupid now.
The manga for "Gal Gohan" and "My Monster Secret" have been removed from the Kindle store.
Gal Gohan I may somehow bend myself to understand, but why the heck My Monster Secret?
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Amazon Australia has just stealthily removed the ability of Australians to purchase physical copies of many light novels.
For instance on August 11th i purchased reincarnated as a sword volume 5 as a physical copy i haven't received it yet but its been posted so i should still get it, however now that option is no longer available, you can only purchase the digital copy the physical has been removed from the Australian website.
edit- this has affected J Novel club titles, "I shall Survive using potions" has also been removed from the Australian Amazon, both physical and digital.
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@catstorm
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@catstorm Just wondering, could there be any other reason for that, like shipping issues? Since buying stuff from overseas has been a pain ever since we've got the 'rona.
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@nofairytale
I can’t imagine why they would need to remove the digital version of Potions if it was purely a distribution problem and there are still a multitude of other physical LNs available.For instance if I wanted to purchase the latest volume of Mushoku Tensei I can do that right now but not the latest version of reincarnated sword which is released at almost the same time from the same company.
Smartphone 11 physical volume has also been removed but the latest For my daughter is still available.
It’s just weird, I can’t think of a more innocuous series than Potions, why of all series would that receiver a ban.
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@catstorm
Maybe because someone read found out that the other name for it is Potion Loli and they immediately decided it's child pornography without reading the content. -
@BartzBB
That seems silly, but what the hell do I know, beyond Amazon completely losing the plot and arbitrarily removing LN and telling no one why. -
@catstorm Potions both novel and manga were removed worldwide (minus Japan) from Amazon digitally, so that's not an Australia-only thing. (Although oddly enough Potions manga still sold on Amazon-owned Comixology).
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So from my investigation (Lol very official), I have discovered that any LN released on Amazon Australia before the 1st of August 2020 has the ability to purchase physical volumes and EVERY LN volume released after this date only allows for digital kindle purchases.
This was an action taken by Amazon Australia at some point after the 11th of August as I was able to purchase those physical volumes on that date.
This has affected manga physicals as well, it appears to be a conscious effort to remove the ability of Australians to purchase physical LNs and manga on Amazon, this is not a directive from the government as every physical volume removed from Amazon is still available on Book Depository at significantly higher prices.
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If this goes on, there will be no manga and light novel available at all on amazon worldwide and for many there is no other choice than this site to get their hands on english releases... I was looking forward to the english release of a korean romance novel next year, but if it's like this, it probably will get banned because ''a stepmother adores her stepchild'' (if I even can't get a physical copy anymore, then...)... Just where should I buy english light novels in the future?!
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@Liber-Monstrorum said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:
good question- I was thinking the same thing. A quick google search found a couple alternate ebook outlets (ebooks.com, smashwords) in addition to the one's I was already familiar with (Kobo, BN, google, apple) maybe this fiasco will lead to a resurgence of smaller outlets ? I can say with certainty that all my JNC purchases will be via JNC native store...I'll purchase via amazon only if I can't get a title anywhere else. I wonder if JNC is interested in expanding their offerings? Partnerships with a few other smaller publishers (i.e. Meteor Strike when/if they have epubs ready to sell, Tentai, or Seven Seas )??
I read banned books
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Some volumes of Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs have now been completely delisted by Amazon.
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@Jon-Mitchell So far I’m only buying my light novels as premium ebooks from J-Novel Club. I had considered buying light novels for kindle from other publishers too, but with the situation currently like this, I will put it on ice for now.
There are some other sites where you can buy your ebooks, that is true, but as long as there is no title I really want from another publisher than J-Novel Club, I won’t look for it.
That said, I‘ve looked through the german amazon and besides the digital version, for many ”banned” series you can still buy the printed version, though I don’t know how long it will stay like this.
But I have the feeling, that the amazon of the United States and Australia are especially hard in their decision which books to ban. It also looks like it are mostly light novels oriented towards male readers (so far I only know of two light novels oriented towards female readers), that got banned. It’s really weird...
