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Samantha K said:


I had a long conversation about this with an Ammie support person because of another issue. I wanted to hook my daughter's kindle to their .fr site so she could get french books. I was told it wasn't possible. First of all, you're supposed to live in the country that you're connected to. Secondly, you cannot be connected to two amazon sites for kindle purchases.

It all has to do with copyright law. Some books have global copyrights, others don't. Ammie is basically being lazy. It's entirely possible to write the software so that it matches your home address against the copyright for each book you wish to purchase (or borrow). They're just too lazy to add that complexity to their site software. So they take the easy route and just say no to everything.

I consider myself very lucky because when I purchased my 1st kindle, I was able to do so through the .com site and I make all my kindle purchases there.  Subsequent purchases have been grandfathered in.  Anyone in Canada now, has to do it through the .ca site.  Although the situation has improved, there is still a difference in what is available on the two sites.

Secretromancejunkie:

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to what Amazon does.. Look at the debacle they've made of the forums. I would imagine any other company would do what it takes to increase their bottom line, whereas it seems that Amazon doesn't care that it's driving people away.

I think amazon is literally too big for it's britches. It is now so big that it's momentum is self driving. They can piss their customers off all they want and it doesn't matter. So what if you piss off 10,000 customers when you have millions more. Also, I think the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. One department makes a change that the other departments simply don't know about.

The kindle thing just ticks along without them. Everyone and their dog is self publishing. Doesn't matter what ammie does or even what real publishers do. Ammie makes money, they don't have to care if the customers are happy or not.

Basically they're arrogant and they can do whatever they want. We ants have no affect on that rubber tree!

Secretromancejunkie and Samantha K :

I agree wholeheartedly with everything you've both said... So many posters lament on the forums that with all the changes happening it's driving people away and as a consequence less money spent, but in reality it's just a drop in the ocean for them.

Jamie McGuire and most of YA/NA writers

I'm with you, fangfan. Never read Kristen Ashley because so many elements of her style are just unappealing to me. And I couldn't get past the first few chapters of Outlander because of the two husband scenario.