Books/Preorders missing from Amazon
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@edowaado said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:
You know, everything that has come up in this thread makes me glad that I switched the bulk of my LN/manga e-book buying from Amazon to Bookwalker a couple of years ago. Sure, I had to re-purchase some things and I know that sme folks have issues with Bookwalker, but at the moment that seems to be the better option. (I have no experience with Kobo or anyone else so cannot comment on them.)
I just buy everything JNC directly from them; price is the same or less, DRM-free and not locked to a platform, extra content. What's not to like?
Non-JNC is a problem.
I've bought a few things from Amazon, and promptly converted the format because I don't like the Kindle reader - but I don't like Amazon as a company either, so that's not what I want to do.
Nook used to be fairly reasonable to convert to something other than their reader, but they locked things down hard a couple of years ago. No more.
Kobo I don't know about either.
Bookwalker? I took a look and ran screaming; they appear to be even more hardcore 'you will read it our way or not at all, citizen' than Nook. No thanks.
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Yeah I'm getting really worried about the direction this could go... dropped a ton of cash getting all the physical copies I can for now lest they become purged in the future...
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Well, one good thing about this for me is that it introduced me to this place and a bunch of other publishers I didn't really know about. Thank you for discussion and I will be following along. After deciding that while I love physical books, I just am at a point in my life where I don't want shelves upon shelves of them so I opted to get a Kindle. I've already have hundreds of dollars of LN and Manga on it and now this. I seriously was going to buy several of these titles and that's how I became aware of this. If it is a flagging issue, fine. But if this is an Amazon decision I need to know because despite all that I put on my Kindle - I will get something else instead. I hate Amazon I just bought it because I heard it was the best for reading manga.
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Looking through Amazon it appears Infinite Stratos V3 and Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash V1 have been removed recently.
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Yeah now this has started I doubt it's stopping any time soon. Now if something offends anyone it has to go... humanity as a species isn't covering itself with glory recently...
Time for the dolphins to take over, all hail our aquatic overlords
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@Swiftnissity Stratos v8 as well.
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Grimgar Volume 1: Girls bathing in colored pic
Infinite Stratos: as mentioned earlier, volume 8 has pic of girls bathing
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I really hope this gets sorted out soon, if Amazon Japan can sell these books there is no reason they shouldn't be sold else ware.
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@Village-Idiot And Stratos volume 3, the first black and white illustration is a buck-naked loli in bed with the MC.
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Alright, I don't know if anyone has seen the latest but it appears that Yen Press made a statement that it was a censorship decision by Amazon - so I am out. This really sucks because I asked for this Kindle Paperwhite for Christmas and as I stated earlier, I already have hundreds of dollars of books on it.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a great e-reader for manga and LN outside of Amazon? AND, is there anyway I can transfer what I already bought for my Kindle to my new e-reader?
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@White_Silver The afore-mentioned Calibre is your key, if you want your novels in a different format. What I buy here gets converted to Kindle format and sent off to Amazon for reading on all my kindles and kindle-equipped tablets/phones, and what I buy on Amazon gets backed up in epub format.
There is no reason to give up the kindle hardware, but any generic Android tablet can have both the kindle app and different epub readers. Even Apple iOS stuff!
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@SomeOldGuy Kindle is preferred since it loads and turns pages images faster than other e-readers.
Just buy from Kobo, rip the drm and side load to the Kindle via Calibre.
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We (the readers and JNC) also have to address the fiasco with Amazon (No Game No Life [Yen Press], How Not to Summon a Demon Lord [JNC], I Shall Survive Using Potions [JNC], Clockwork Planet [JNC], etc.). For those who don't know, Amazon unlisted these specific LN off their platform (even though hentai is still being sold through the platform [ie Fakku]). I have accounts in both Amazon and Bookwalker. Granted being a premium member gets me a book per month, but it is slightly inconvenient for me to go to another app to read the files (usually have to pull the file in my download list). I still remember Amazon having issues with Hatsune Miku merchandise a few years ago too. You would think someone from Sony went to Amazon and caused a fuss.
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@Vine said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:
We (the readers and JNC) also have to address the fiasco with Amazon (No Game No Life [Yen Press], How Not to Summon a Demon Lord [JNC], I Shall Survive Using Potions [JNC], Clockwork Planet [JNC], etc.). For those who don't know, Amazon unlisted these specific LN off their platform (even though hentai is still being sold through the platform [ie Fakku]). I still remember Amazon having issues with Hatsune Miku merchandise a few years ago too. You would think someone from Sony went to Amazon and caused a fuss.
If companies don't want to stock any mature content that's their choice, but the lack of consistency is a little ridiculous. You don't see them rushing to ban popular western stuff like Game of Thrones that's a lot worse than the stuff being banned here.
License Wishlist: Kino's Journey, Crest/Banner anthology, SukaMoka
Favorite JNC Series: Bookworm, Faraway Paladin, Dendro, Grimgar, Crest/Banner of the Stars, Tearmoon Empire, Skull Dragon's Precious Daughter, Apothecary Diaries, Otome Heroine's Fight -
I can only hope readers wise up and purchase premiums instead.
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@yumenokage It's just unfortunate for JNC and other companies, Amazon probably makes up more than the majority of their profit. And many of the consumers probably purchased only based on the suggestions, never to have heard the series prior.
It sucks that one company can have another by the balls only for their self righteousness or whatever you want to call it.And if that doesn't change, will just end up 'hurting' us as then series that they don't think Amazon will allow potentially won't get considered for licensing and translation.
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@yumenokage I honestly think its worse than even that. I ask why is it that I cannot purchase the light novel for Grimgar from Amazon, but I can somehow still purchase the anime. Seriously this makes no frigging sense. Why is the novel so much worse apparently than the show.
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@Eternal-Wanderer Different laws and moral values. They weren't a problem when originally published in Japan and Amazon.jp would probably take a massive publicity hit if they started to apply American puritanical values to Japan.
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@jampodevral Isn't it the case that some (but not all) of the missing English versions are missing even from Amazon Japan? So they're already doing it. Not sure how many people there will notice if the Japanese language ones aren't affected, though.
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Another thought. Japanese publishers have not been super reliant on Ebooks for sales and they get a really large percent of their buy in from brick 'n mortars. I think that it would actually hurt Jp Amazon more to have Kadokawa pull all of their products from listings if Amazon execs were stupid enough to hurt the relationship between them. If you look at the way that many Japanese investment firms and corporations spiderweb out into multiple fields and network via long standing contracts, you could end up with several thousand product sku's dissapearing in a few days time as sibling companies and allied firms pull products.
