July 2011
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Amanda Hocking "Switched" away from digital...
Earlier today, we received an email from a Lendler / Amanda Hocking fan, letting us know that there is an issue with Hocking’s book, Switched:
You may or may not be aware of this situation, seeing as how I always see this set of books being added to the site frequently. Actually, I am seeing that you do know about this situation after looking at the “available now” section....
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So long Kindle Store button; we hardly used you.
The sudden removal of the “Kindle Store” button in Amazon’s iOS Kindle app is getting a surprising amount of coverage, given that Apple issued the infamous “our way or the highway” ultimatum months ago. Still, the reminder that such a button once existed prompted us to ask the following question on Twitter:
iOS Kindle users: How often do (did) you actually click the...
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Borders.
We dropped by a Borders this weekend. Everything! Must! Go! It’s early, so the best deals are yet to come — most likely on the worst merchandise. It was nice to see a bookstore teeming with eager customers; it’s just too bad that it takes a liquidation sale for that to happen.
Not long after Borders announced their farewell tour — apparently, they’re so undesirable...
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Lendle would like to borrow one of your books…
(See update below.)
Last week, we posted an article about books being deleted from Amazon’s system.
We’ve collected a few examples and, as you can see, the Amazon links for these books lead to “product not found” pages.
Water for Elephants ASIN: B004PYDO64
Another (lendable) edition of this book is still available.
Veiled Freedom ASIN: B002IUZM1C
Another (lendable)...
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Nabbing Free Books May be a Bad Idea
We’ve never really wanted to bargain hunt for our users, primarily because we don’t think it’s in our long-term interest to point out free titles, even when they’re lendable.
First of all, doing so arguably sends a bad message to authors, and we don’t want to do that.
We’re also now learning that snapping up free books may not be a particularly wise move, if...
