Why can‘t other publishers offer premium ebooks too?!
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@SomeOldGuy said in Why can‘t other publishers offer premium ebooks too?!:
@Cooper-Cummings-gk5u8qq I can't say Amazon is aggressive about deleting spam titles from user accounts anymore...
I have been waiting for a certain series to become available in the US. Watched it on a "third party" (cough, cough) site for over a year. Suddenly it showed up on Amazon, at an aggressive price, $3/volume, and under the name of the main person doing the translation for the 3rd-party sites.
I bought it, confirmed it was the scam site version, and immediately wrote a review of it, pointing out that it was put out by someone not associated with the author or publisher. I figured that was the best I could do.
Amazon immediately removed the title from sale. My review stayed up for maybe a week. But the title is still in my collection.
I'm still waiting for an official translation.
That is better than what they did before. With the whole 1984 controversey they didn't just stop at deleting it from your account, they would remote access your kindle and delete the locally stored files. Also it was books, not video content, so picking a random paragraph or two and seeing if it exactly matched one from a major title like 1984, Harry Potter, etc. would have been trivial.
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@HarmlessDave said in Why can‘t other publishers offer premium ebooks too?!:
@Cid said in Why can‘t other publishers offer premium ebooks too?!:
Yen Press's titles interest me more than J-novel Club's, but I have yet to buy a single Yen Press ebook due to DRM concerns. And because physical copies are so expensive, I only buy those I'm certain I'll like.
There's nothing wrong with being anti-DRM, but as bad as Amazon is about yanking titles form smaller publishers like Hanashi and JNC, the Kindle app runs on everything.
Also, even for the titles they de-listed you can still download them if you bought them. The only title I know of that they actually removed from devices was an edition of 1984 that was published by some scammer who did not have the publishing rights.
There's no chance of Amazon dropping Kindle publishing, so anything you buy there will be available for at least your lifetime.
(Google? Who knows, they love to cancel apps. Apple? Not going anywhere but app support on non-Apple devices is less certain.)
I don't see how this has anything to do with what I said.
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@Cid said in Why can‘t other publishers offer premium ebooks too?!:
@HarmlessDave said in Why can‘t other publishers offer premium ebooks too?!:
@Cid said in Why can‘t other publishers offer premium ebooks too?!:
Yen Press's titles interest me more than J-novel Club's, but I have yet to buy a single Yen Press ebook due to DRM concerns. And because physical copies are so expensive, I only buy those I'm certain I'll like.
There's nothing wrong with being anti-DRM, but as bad as Amazon is about yanking titles form smaller publishers like Hanashi and JNC, the Kindle app runs on everything.
Also, even for the titles they de-listed you can still download them if you bought them. The only title I know of that they actually removed from devices was an edition of 1984 that was published by some scammer who did not have the publishing rights.
There's no chance of Amazon dropping Kindle publishing, so anything you buy there will be available for at least your lifetime.
(Google? Who knows, they love to cancel apps. Apple? Not going anywhere but app support on non-Apple devices is less certain.)
I don't see how this has anything to do with what I said.
You said: "but I have yet to buy a single Yen Press ebook due to DRM concerns."
I replied with how Amazon DRM is safe and should not prevent you from reading on whatever your devices are, if your concerns are with losing access rather than philosophical objections to the idea of DRM.
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@HarmlessDave My concern is that I dislike DRM. I'm sorry I did not make that clear.