Comments | elidyce: Ten whole dollars? My heart ----ing bleeds!

elidyce

Ten whole dollars? My heart ----ing bleeds!

Feb 02, 2010 15:35

I imagine that most of you - being readers - know about the impressive Amazon Fail-Again that happened this weekend. (If you do not, may I recommend this - http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/02/01/all-the-many-ways-amazon-so-very- ( Read more... )

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elidyce February 2 2010, 06:08:00 UTC

Ooooh, yeah, me too to the lack of sympathy.

This is why I always leave room for books in my suitcase when I go to the U.S. Lots of room.

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elidyce February 2 2010, 11:45:53 UTC

Ouch. Yes, fair point.

I recommend Powells, if you are ever in the U.S. Biggest bookstore in the world, and they have used books that start at a dollar or two.

I've never tried to order online from them, but I'm told they do do that...

chandri February 2 2010, 06:15:23 UTC

Hilariously, in Canada, we get to not only pay much more than Americans for the same books (e.g. a mass-market paperback in the US is $8; in Canada (before hefty Canadian sales tax) it ranges from $11 to $15 for the same length and type of paperback, for no apparent reason), even though our dollar is nearly at par a large percentage of the time, and as a bonus, most of our books have both prices on them. With the US price first, in big bold font.

We also have weird book-import laws when it comes to the US. To protect our delicate culture from American influences. ;)

I don't even buy ebooks (we, too, are prevented from buying anything but, well, books from Amazon), but I am having difficulty feeling the outrage over fifteen whole dollars. o.O

elidyce February 2 2010, 11:44:39 UTC

Baen should work for you - and they have free ones. :) But yeah, the whole 'if you are outside the U.S. you do not exist' thing is *really* getting on my nerves. For crying out loud, I WANT TO GIVE THEM MONEY. Why won't they *take* it? It makes no sense!

trishalynn February 2 2010, 12:40:46 UTC

I don't have time this morning to look at all the links, but did someone cover the "Why the hell are you fucking over the overseas buyers?" argument as well?

inteligrrl February 24 2010, 04:09:12 UTC

Hey, I was hoping to find out if you had an archive link for, or could email me a copy of, Psychoanalyzing my Symbiote. Since MSN communities went defunct there's no good place to find your fic, and I was hoping to show that particular story to a friend.