If this happened to your copy, contact them: one thing ebooks and audio can do is fix something with a new download.
Apparently Audible has 'dropouts' in Visitor, including ending.
by CJ | Apr 8, 2016 | Journal | 17 comments
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The problem may lie with iTunes, if you start play before full download, according to one person who erased the file, then redownloaded with success.
Not sure on this one.
I wish it was as easy to fix Amazon’s delivery. Onto my third order with them and attempt to get the book delivered. Including the “not listed” “not shipping” “we tried to deliver but went to the wrong city”
Aagh.
I’ve only briefly listened to the Audible book, and had no issues, but IME if there’s a problem, Audible is quite good at both fixing it, and making a new copy available. Of course they’ll also let you return the book, but that’s not what we want. We want our Visitor.
I’ve been buried at work all week, trying to find 5 and 10 minute segments to read in. But after a slow start, I’m really enjoying the book. And looking forward to my second time through which is traditionally with the Audible version.
While we’re talking about Visitor: is there a reason a non-US person can no longer buy the US ebook from Amazon or Kobo? It’s the first time since you were released in ebook that I couldn’t buy it. I’m German but I only read in English and only ebooks these days because of my eyes.
Maybe you are releasing the worldwide English ebook yourself? I could wait if that were the case :D.
I wish! There was a lawsuit of some sort and a ruling that US books could not be sold abroad via these sources. Maybe you could arrange a reciprocal lend-lease with a US friend?
really? I mean we always had regional restrictions but only if the publisher in question wanted it, if they had World English rights, I was able to buy it at Amazon.com just fine… Huh.
As I said, all your previous Foreigner ebooks I was able to buy via those sources.
Estara, and CJ, for me in Holland it’s the same. I’ve bought all the other Foreigner ebooks legally on Kobo, and continue each month to buy American ebooks from them.
As Estara said, if the US publisher has the bought the rights for ‘the (non-English) rest of the world’ in the contract with the author, then I don’t think that a lawsuit would decide they can’t sell their books to us.
Very often, though rights to publish in other English-language countries are reserved specially (hence the trouble for UK, Australian and New Zealand readers), the rights to non-exclusively sell the books in the rest of the world are often included in the main contract.
Considering all the other Foreigner ebooks have been, and are still, available in that way, I really don’t expect your newer contracts would be different in that respect.
I could see the ruling about not selling ebooks abroad being applicable if the (non-exclusive) right to sell to the rest of the (non-English) world aren’t mentioned in the contract between author and publisher. If the author has reserved that right in order to bring out her own international edition (or sell those rights separately), then it would be wrong for the US publisher to usurp those rights. Or, if the UK rights have been reserved, if the ebooks were sold in the UK as well as the US & ‘rest of the world’.
But if the publisher has paid for those rights (al be it as part of the standard added perks in a US rights contract), it seems very strange that a ruling in a lawsuit could deny those rights.
And if there should be such a ruling, denying the rest of the world access to ebooks published in the US, then why can I still legally buy so many US and UK ebooks each month? I bought another 6 books last week, through Kobo, from large US publishers.
Kobo is very good about setting the availabiliy limits exactly as the publisher indicates for each book. If a book is available in non-English countries and the US but not the UK, then Estara and I can see and buy it, but people in England can’t. It happens fairly often tbough, that the person at the publisher who distributes the ebook to the retailers forgets to tell them that the non-English rest of the world is included in the distribution rights. In that case, we can’t see the book to buy it; even though the publisher would be allowed to sell it to us. I usually notify the publisher of this omission, when I know tgat the ebook should be available and who the publisher is; they send the rectification to the distributors, and usually just a few weeks later the book suddenly becomes visible and available.
An error like that seems much more likely than a blanket ban on all foreign sales, to me. (Unless that’s in your newer contracts, which seems rather unlikely to me, after all the experience with ebooks which you have already had.)
I very much hope this will happen with Visitor too.
Maybe Estara could complain about this to the publisher too, and we can hope to get some movement on this.
CJ, do you or your agent have a contact at the publisher we should address our emails to?
I’m all for that – I wonder if C.J. saw your (much better) explanation, though, since you replied to my post and not hers.
Maybe copy/paste your post to her in this thread directly?
That would be DAW Books
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
Attn: Betsy Wollheim
But I’ll send the gist of Hanneke’s very good comment to Betsy myself.
What about a UK source, or Amazon France? Or is it specifically by country, rather than the European Union?
But I believe the problem also affects native English speakers outside the US and Canada, such as Australia and New Zealand.
It must be *very* frustrating to be a fan in other countries, to want to read American English books, and yet both ebooks and printed books are not readily available. Publishing companies are missing out by not making agreements to sell in non-US markets. Sigh.
really depends on the publisher. Tor US books I can get just fine, whether at Amazon.com or at the Amazon.de shop, because they take World English rights and sell the books at both. DAW I also used to have no problems getting. Maybe their parent company changed stuff.
I can’t get Australian books with a US Amazon account. 🙁
I preordered it from B&N in December (needed to round out a gift card!) and they sent me a “we’re shipping it” email the 5th but USPS say they haven’t gotten it yet, and now the B&N website has disappeared my order and they haven’t answered my email… need to call them tomorrow =/
I ordered “Visitor” on my aging Kindle. It downloaded fine, but has crashed 3 times while I’ve been reading. Not sure if the issue is the download or my Kindle.
Regardless, I’m not finished, but from what I’ve read thus far, the book is *great*! Thank you!
For the international folks (Estara and Hanneke) and for Corinne, I hope that you’ll soon be able to receive your copies.
Thanks for the well-wishing ^^
Ester and Hanneke, thank you both for the good explanations.
CJ, I’m sure this must frustrate you as an author and a language expert. I hope DAW, Amazon, and Kobo can get it worked out.