Books/Preorders missing from 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... -
Arifureta 7-10 and Seirei Gensouki 5 are gone it looks like, as well as every volume of Summon a Demon Lord, even the re-uploaded ones with images in the back.
Every volume of Infinite Stratos and Lazy Dungeon Master has also been nuked on amazon. -
@LegitPancake Putting the images in the back of How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord does not fix the covers.
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I really wish that we knew why this was happening, its one thing to take the book off the site but Amazon won't even say why.
What makes it even odder is that the manga version and the physical version of many series are still available.
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It's just really sad, this is the golden age for Japanese media in the west and it looks like its going to be short lived due to one company being arseholes.
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@catstorm While this is a bad situation I don't think this will kill it. So far for whatever reason only the digital versions have been taken off the site so you can still buy physical for a lot of releases. Not to mention all the anime you can watch that has nothing to do with Amazon.
On another note I'm sure there are people working behind the scenes trying to figure out why this is happening and I'm hopeful that they will eventually figure it out.
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We recently had to take some drastic action for reasons I won't go into at this time. For now we have delisted some series.
This only affects amazon.
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Are you at liberty to say which series are affected? (Beyond how not to summon, if any)
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Kindle release for An Archdemon's Dilemma volume 10 seems to be down when I check via Amazon US on Chrome incognito mode.
Series page:
Physical is still listed.
Also Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! volumes 1-2
Series page:
Not sure if this is part of the drastic action Sam mentioned a couple of days ago.
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From your screenshot of the physical entry it looks like Elf Bride series has the wrong title on Amazon. It still contains the word
Slavewhich was removed almost immediately from volume 1 prepubs... -
@Terabyte said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:
From your screenshot of the physical entry it looks like Elf Bride series has the wrong title on Amazon. It still contains the word
Slavewhich was removed almost immediately from volume 1 prepubs...It looks like the 'series' for the physical entries still has the old title with slave in the name on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B07HFFQKH1/
While the 'series' for the kindle release uses the corrected name: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HJY59JX
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Hello im new hear and just been keeping tabs on this issue. I just wanted to know if we can get a list of series that has been d listed from amazon and what this means going forword for those of us on kindle. I have very limited funds and sadly can not afford to pay a jnovel membership once a month to be able to buy books directly from jnovel. I allso have no idea how to sideload these books to my kindle ereader. My pc is ancient and has trouble doing the most random of tasks so i dont know if sideloading is even a option for me. Sorry for the long post i just have alot of built up concern over this as im kinda stuck in kindles ecosystem at this point
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@Swiftnissity @Terabyte
Well, its seems the page for Archdemon volume 10 has disappeared completely, just in case it was because of region I checked amazon US in incognito and the only thing now the amazon page for it says is 'Sorry, we couldn't find that page', and the series listing on amazon is only volumes 1 to 9, while google cache still shows 1 to 10. -
@LegitPancake said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:
Lazy Dungeon Master has also been nuked on amazon.
You can still preorder 12.
@Liber-Monstrorum said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:
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?!
Well, I probably shouldn’t lose hope so fast. It’s not like Germany is the same as the United States or Australia.Yeah we are alright with tits (and I don't mean the bird) but not with gore. But we had on amazon.de one LDM Volume which was nuked exxcluseively in germany.
Hmmm, drastic measures @Sam-Pinansky ... doesn't sound nice. Knowing you we will hear the details later on.
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The first post should be updated with the current available/not available status. Things have changed since 7/22.
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@saskir The German Kindle version of High school DxD Manga plus the Asia Spin-off were removed as well from Amazon DE but It's likely done by Amazon US as well and they might've purged it in other regions as well. Like with NGNL Disc-versions of the Anime of DXD are unaffected by the takedowns.
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All of Arifureta is now gone from kindle (even reuploads), paperbacks still fine.
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I had a thought. Dont know if this come up but the titles that i have read that have been taken down all habe some form of slavery in them. Considering the start time of the take downs and all the BS in america right now. I think that has somthing to donwith it
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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.
I'm just wondering what will happen to these new rules since it seems that the series that were de-listed and re-uploaded following the new rules were also removed.
In fact the situation just got worse and whole series are being removed already and not specific volumes.
Heck, some regions even have the physical books being removed.JNC LN Ranking:
1st - Rokujouma
2nd - Realist Hero
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Now that vol 13 of how not to summonnis starting to show up prepub. Can i asume it will not be released on kindle? If that is the case will the only way i can get vol 13 and continue reading is with a premium membership? Can we please get a list of effected titles so i can plan for this? Im low income and can not afford to buy a premium memebership when just 1 book i read is released in the month im active. I would need to get several titles while its going and use caliber all in one go as i dont have a pc i can run it on. Any information will be welcome. And ty for alk your work bringing us these LN!
