Wednesday morning huh?
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 06:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniRegarding Amazon (yes, yes, me, too; in spades): It would appear that the Clueless and Stupid letter from The Amazon Kindle Team IS Amazon's Official Explanation of Their Actions.
Just. . .Wow.
Macmillan books are still not available for sale on Amazon.com.
Whatever issues a shout-out for author support at bookstores that are more interested in selling books than in Galactic Dominion.
Edited to add: Indiebound takes this moment to remind you that Macmillan books are at their website and at thousands of independent bookstores across the country.
In other news, I came home from work yesterday a very sick woman, and took immediately to my bed. I'm not feverish this morning, so! Off to work I go, I go.
Sigh. [whine] This, to me, is the single, most unforgivable perversion of the day-job: I go to work sick, and come home too worn out to do the actual real work that needs doing.[/whine]
Mozart's eye is very much better, which is a relief...and I need to make coffee.
Just. . .Wow.
Macmillan books are still not available for sale on Amazon.com.
Whatever issues a shout-out for author support at bookstores that are more interested in selling books than in Galactic Dominion.
Edited to add: Indiebound takes this moment to remind you that Macmillan books are at their website and at thousands of independent bookstores across the country.
In other news, I came home from work yesterday a very sick woman, and took immediately to my bed. I'm not feverish this morning, so! Off to work I go, I go.
Sigh. [whine] This, to me, is the single, most unforgivable perversion of the day-job: I go to work sick, and come home too worn out to do the actual real work that needs doing.[/whine]
Mozart's eye is very much better, which is a relief...and I need to make coffee.
Thank you and I hope you feel better
Date: 2010-02-03 09:00 pm (UTC)I hope you, like Mozart, feel better soon.
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks
PS I have one report from a customer that her sister lost a mystery off the Kindle. Yep, Macmillan author. Yep, she was right in the middle of it. She's _steamed_.
Re: Thank you and I hope you feel better
Date: 2010-02-03 10:54 pm (UTC)Another reason to keep my Kindle offline when I'm not specifically downloading content, and to keep spare copies of any ebooks from Amazon I'd be upset to loose on my computer. Also another reason to buy my Kindle content from sources other than Amazon, as if I needed a reason besides the fact that their content is DRM-locked to their architecture. (Unless you jailbreak it, which is doable - there's a python script - but possibly a violation of DMCA (possibly because 1201(f), an exception about interoperability, might permit this) and a definite violation of Amazon's terms of service.)