Comments on: Pocket Full of Kryptonite

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:45:12 +0000

Really? Eww. And ugh. And other words that express that feeling.

By: Bill Manson

Bill Manson — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:30:50 +0000

The agency morass gets even deeper when you cross the border into Canada. The agency system for Canadian rights is seen as being the revenue base that enables Canadian publishers to publish the “specialty stuff…like Canadian fiction”. That’s the reason/excuse for Amazon’s e-books not being loanable in Canada. Transnational agnosticism is an even tougher nut to crack.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:03:11 +0000

I was thinking about this recently myself. I don’t have a kindle, and the only times I’ve gotten e-books from Amazon they were free of cost as part of promotions. However, the portability is the one issue which is staying my hand in paying for any other books I may want.

When I put those books in my cart it put them on a kindle web-reader. I don’t even know what it is really – all I known is that I wasn’t given any clear options to purchase the books in a format which I could actually load onto my non-kindle e-reader, or even read independently on my PC. I gather that Kindle users can sync their device directly to their account so they can read on the go, but what about the rest of us?

Who knows, maybe paid books would arrive as a file I could then reformat to fit my reader, but I’m not willing to take the chance with my money.