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Li Yang United States Local time: 07:05 Member Chinese to English + ...
Thank you!
Apr 20, 2018
I downloaded all nine.
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B D Finch France Local time: 16:05 French to English + ...
Doesn't seem to be available in France
Apr 21, 2018
Thanks for the link, but it seems that Amazon's internationalism stops at the US borders! When I clicked the link it only offered standard prices and amazon.fr doesn't show any offers at all or any mention of World Book Day.
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Platary (X) Local time: 16:05 German to French + ...
Terms and Conditions
Apr 22, 2018
B D Finch wrote:
Thanks for the link, but it seems that Amazon's internationalism stops at the US borders! When I clicked the link it only offered standard prices and amazon.fr doesn't show any offers at all or any mention of World Book Day.
If you click the Term and Conditions button, you see that "Eligible US customers can download..."
We are not!
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Taken from Wikipedia: World Book Day or World Book and *Copyright* Day is a yearly event on April 23rd, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing, and copyright.
What’s more fitting to promote books, publishing, AND copyright, than to use DRM protection even on ebook giveaways?
What’s more fitting to celebrate a supposedly “World” event than to limit the celebration to a speci... See more
Taken from Wikipedia: World Book Day or World Book and *Copyright* Day is a yearly event on April 23rd, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing, and copyright.
What’s more fitting to promote books, publishing, AND copyright, than to use DRM protection even on ebook giveaways?
What’s more fitting to celebrate a supposedly “World” event than to limit the celebration to a specific country, as an international company? So much for Amazon’s internationalism, as B D Finch well puts it.
But the offer says: “Read these nine Kindle books from around the world for FREE”. So this is what “World” in “World Book Day” means in this Amazon-specific twist. Next time, maybe try calling it what is: “[DRM] Books-From-Around-The-World-Day”.
And to think it all started with copyright-free Cervantes’s Don Quixote…
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