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[nonelvis]

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.

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[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.

[nonelvis]

Now, that is a legitimate complaint. Any idea why they aren't selling it to you?

[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".