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I was buying myself a copy of Game Change today, and after reading the glowing review the book got from Entertainment Weekly, I was shocked to see the book had only two stars on Amazon. Turns out this is due to people giving it one-star reviews to protest the one-month delay of a Kindle edition -- presumably a delay made at the publisher's request, because this new-fangled Internet doohickey is kind of scary, you know. And I can certainly understand why that would piss off potential readers, but some of them might want to back away from the computer and check out this fresh air thingy I've heard so much about:



Yes, not being able to buy a copy of a book for the Kindle when you want it is exactly like living in a totalitarian society.

on 2010-01-24 05:08 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [identity profile] iko.livejournal.com
Such lack of perspective makes my eyes bleed.

Also, isn't this like killing what you love? "I'm going to give this book that I want to read that I heard is really good a negative review because I can't get it in the format I want?" LAME. People like that don't deserve to read a book that they would love.

on 2010-01-24 09:03 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [identity profile] lizbee.livejournal.com
I would like to protest their refusal to sell it to Australian book stores. If I have one more customer asking for "that book about McCain and Clinton and the election", I may have to cry.

on 2010-01-24 09:36 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [identity profile] lizbee.livejournal.com
None at all. There's no Australian distributor for it, which is not unusual with an American new release (local distributors usually wait and see how successful it is before they commit), but the American wholesalers just have a note up saying "Not for sale outside of the US".

on 2010-01-25 12:05 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] kalleah.livejournal.com
It's exactly like protesting that there's not an immediate paperback version of the book. Would it be better to have a Kindle version upon release? I think so, but I am not a publisher.

on 2010-01-25 02:59 pm (UTC)
Posted by (Anonymous)
People asked Neil Gaiman to complain about the Kindle delays and he declined, also using the paperback analogy.

on 2010-01-25 07:22 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] syzygy-lj.livejournal.com
"Is this out in paperback?" is the most annoying question you could possibly ask a bookseller. Followed closely by "Why is this cheaper on Amazon?"

I am so glad I no longer work in the bookstore, because now that the Kindle is The Next Big Thing, I would have to fend off its fans, too. "Why don't you sell ebooks?"

on 2010-01-25 02:42 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] mmancuso.livejournal.com
In old country we had to read books in the snow, backwards and forwards. In the daylight.

Channeling Jacov Smirnov

on 2010-01-25 02:48 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] profrobert.livejournal.com
In 2010 America, idiot always finds you.

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