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Oct 19, 2015 06:36AM
I was just going to offer you a copy, Tadiana, but since we're more like 400 miles apart, I'm glad you found one closer...
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Does your store sell online Carol? I'm sure there's a lot of fans out there that would like to get hold of a hardback of a book they love.
No we are a little op (charity) shop. They do sell on TradeMe (our ebay) but the woman who lists doesn't want to list books any more. I'm wanting to take a couple of books to Auckland to a rare bookshop (not Georgette Heyer) as I do think they are worth more. When I get home from my holiday I will tackle the subject again.
I have seen those original hardcover books at a local used/rare bookstore (and of course the library). The store had some of the less popular ones: The Royal Escape and The Great Roxythe are available for purchase online http://www.cellarstories.com/You can also check http://www.biblio.com/usedbooksearch.bib
https://www.ilab.org/
http://www.abebooks.com
http://www.allibris.com
Hey everyone, most of Heyer's books are on sale on Amazon right now: Kindle versions for $1.99. They're usually $10, so this is the time to grab one!!
Good gracious!Thank you! Thank you!
Good gracious!Thank you! Thank you!
Okay, I just spent about $10. :) Not all GH books are on sale, so be careful what you click on, but most of them are.
Tadiana ✩ Night Owl☽ wrote: "Hey everyone, most of Heyer's books are on sale on Amazon right now: Kindle versions for $1.99. They're usually $10, so this is the time to grab one!!"But of course not available to those of us in the UK :(
Jay-me (Janet) wrote: "But of course not available to those of us in the UK :( "That's just wrong!!
OK I got all the ones I did not have before. Sad to see the mysteries were not on sale though.
I don't even know exactly how Kindle works! When you buy a Kindle book, do you an actual object that you can insert into your reader, or is the text electronically (cyberly?) transferred to your reader?
MaryC wrote: "I don't even know exactly how Kindle works! When you buy a Kindle book, do you receive an actual object that you can insert into your reader, or is the text electronically (cyberly?) transferred to your re..."
MaryC wrote: "I don't even know exactly how Kindle works! When you buy a Kindle book, do you an actual object that you can insert into your reader, or is the text electronically (cyberly?) transferred to your re..."It's done by wi-fi almost instantaneously. You can be reading the book on your iPad or kindle within 2 seconds of purchasing it!!
Hi, MaryC, I just leaped that hurdle a few months ago. If you have an Amazon account, it's quite easy. When you first get your Kindle, there's a setup process they walk you through, and that links your Kindle to your Amazon account. When you want to buy a book for your Kindle, you click on an icon on your Kindle, select the book, and hit the buy button. The book gets charged to whatever card you have connected to your Amazon account, and it automatically downloads in a few moments. Dangerously easy!
Why oh why does Amazon do this to us? If they can reduce the price on Amazon.com then they should be doing it on Amazon.co.uk as well!!It's just nice if occasionally they reduce the price of the good stuff as opposed to offering so much c**p at incredibly reduced prices or even for free. I would not mind but GH is not actually benefiting is she?
Sorry - small rant over!!
It is all digital. You buy a reader, some are more complex than others. You can get one that just does books, or you can get one with all the bells & whistles. I have an original and recently acquired a super-duper one as Amazon had a special sale & I could spread the payments over a few months. My new one allows me to watch movies, listen to music, etc. It came in handy when I had my accident, as some books were too heavy to hold & I could prop it where I could read without holding it. Also, I could see to read without turning on lights & at the facility where I had to do physical rehab, I had a variety of roommates. When I purchase a book, it downloads immediately. If I buy a physical book, it often allows me to start the book while I await delivery, and with some books it offers a deal where for a small fee I can have the full version on my Kindle. I was resistant to it before my accident, I have physical books stacked everywhere, but its been a lifesaver during by recuperation.
MaryC, I started out with an actual Kindle about 5 years ago, but now I use my Kindle program on my iPad to read all my ebooks. If you have any kind of a mobile device (or even a PC if you don't mind reading on it), you can download the Kindle application for free (just Google "Kindle for [whatever your device is]"). Then follow the setup process Abigail outlined. I've got Amazon set up for one-click buys now, so it's super easy to get ebooks. "Dangerously easy" is right! :D
MaryC I will add to Abigail's comments: if you have a smart phone, you can use the kindle app!I don't have a kindle, but I read kindle books on my iPhone via the app.
I think there are kindle apps for other devices besides iThings.
Here's another nice thing: You can connect up to 5 (I think) devices to your Amazon account, so they can all share the same books at no extra cost. I've got my PC and my smart phone connected as well as my iPad, and now that my teenage daughter has a tablet I've connected hers as well. If I read something I know she'll like, I can go to "Manage your content" on Amazon and tell it to download that book onto her tablet.
Could you connect to a device 3000+ miles away? ;)
Very likely, if she added you to her account. ;-). I've done it for my kids who have lived across the country for me.
MaryC wrote: "Could you connect to a device 3000+ miles away? ;)"The only problem could be the electronic country restrictions, if the 3000 miles is between different countries. (The reason our UK ladies are complaining.)
I was very against e-readers until this past June, and I converted with a vengeance! I can read so much faster on a kindle, it is lightweight, can store thousands of books, can swap back and forth between several different books, can adjust the font size and lighting, can make notes and highlight sections for quick access later and finally, it is very rare that an ebook costs as much as a physical book.
(takes breath)
Plus I can check out books for free from my library, and get free public domain ebooks from Project Gutenberg.
Also they recently updated the Kindle app to allow you to copy text, which made posting status updates and pasting quotes into my reviews so much easier. And I recently discovered that when you highlight text, you can click on a button at the top of any page in the ebook and it will conveniently show you a list (with links) of all of the parts you highlighted, which is also extremely useful when writing reviews.
I will add to Critterbee's comments and say that I was slow to jump on the eBook bandwagon, but now that I have--It's changed my life!I have quadrupled the number of books I that I am able to read each month.
Reading on my iPhone is so much more convenient than lugging around a mmpbk as I used to do.
Susan wrote: "Why oh why does Amazon do this to us? If they can reduce the price on Amazon.com then they should be doing it on Amazon.co.uk as well!!It's just nice if occasionally they reduce the price of the ..."
Generally speaking, it is the publisher (not Amazon) that restricts sales geographically.
So could someone in the UK download the US version of the Kindle program (maybe using the US address of a friend :D) and go to Amazon US and download ebooks? I'm just curious and wondering if anyone has tried to evade the restrictions.ETA: I just did a little research and apparently the key is your billing address. So you could probably evade the regional licensing restrictions if you're willing to lie to Amazon about your billing address. :)
Tadiana ✩ Night Owl☽ wrote: "So could someone in the UK download the US version of the Kindle program (maybe using the US address of a friend :D) and go to Amazon US and download ebooks? I'm just curious and wondering if anyon..."It's a little trickier than that, as your device has to be registered to a particular billing address, and if you change that address, you lose the books registered for the old address.
Now, if you have two devices, e.g. a Kindle and a tablet with the Kindle app installed or a desktop or laptop computer with the app installed, you can register one device with an account with a US-based billing address, and set up a second, UK-based account for the other device. But you have to keep the accounts separate.
I am following all this with great interest; and having done a bit of research, it is clear that book/digital retail and distribution arrangements across national borders is a minefield of rules, regulations and agreed protocols. However, I still do not understand how Amazon can drop the price of GH books for its American market, but not for the UK (or any other country in the world) market? Never mind - I guess it will all get sorted one day!
Could we petition Amazon about it?As for traditional books (hard copy), they CAN simply be ordered from abroad, can't they?
It's not Amazon's call. Sourcebooks Casablanca is the US publisher for Heyer's books, and they're the ones who have decreed the sale. From their Facebook page on 2-November:"We're celebrating 80 years of Regency romance with a promotion on 80 of our Regency titles! Titles on sale include Georgette Heyer, Grace Burrowes, and many, many more! Check out the full list:
http://eepurl.com/bEn2L1"
Incidentally, the sale is for 80 hours only, so act quickly.
In the UK, on the other hand, the publisher is Cornerstone Digital, and they're free to set their own prices (and hold their own sales).
It's all about copyright/rights. Everything is still a muddle and no one is on the same page with who owns what, where and what's legal, etc.
If the situation involved hard copy books, there would be no problem! One can always send a friend a book!BTW, has anyone else seen that old Bonanza episode in which Charles Dickens becomes incensed when an admirer in Nevada tells him she liked a book of his that hadn't been officially published in the US yet? He concluded (accurately, it seems) that she had read a pirated edition, but I wondered why he didn't suppose that she had just had a copy sent from England.
MaryC wrote: "If the situation involved hard copy books, there would be no problem! One can always send a friend a book!BTW, has anyone else seen that old Bonanza episode in which Charles Dickens becomes incen..."
Because only a millionaire would have been able to arrange such a thing at the time!
Susan, would it really have been prohibitively expensive to mail a book across the Atlantic 150 years ago?! "Book rate"/"media mail" didn't exist then? :)
The British Post Office did not start parcel post until 1887. Dickens started visiting the USA in 1842 and died in 1870. No one in the USA would have been able to receive a parcel sent from the UK by parcel post before 1887 - so would have had to use commercial transportation which for 1 little book would probably have been expensive. The interesting point about the Bonanza episode is that the writers were able to use the time setting - the 1860s so cleverly. What is "Book rat"/"media mail" by the way? Not familiar with these terms.
Whoops! "Book rat" should have been "book rate"! (I just corrected it.) In the US, at least, books have long been entitled to be mailed at a lower rate per ounce than letters. Then, some years ago, the Post Office caught up with the times and extended such rates to include recordings, films, etc.--"media" other than print on paper.I do remember reading that, when shipments of magazines including episodes of Dickens's serialized works arrived at US ports, people were lined up at the piers to get them! I suppose those must have come by private carriers, in bulk.
MaryC wrote: "Whoops! "Book rat" should have been "book rate"! (I just corrected it.) In the US, at least, books have long been entitled to be mailed at a lower rate per ounce than letters. Then, some years ago,..."Thanks for the explanation! Obviously would not have applied pre1887 but good to know books were recognised as special!
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