Sparkica and (her) Brainmachine » bad humor http://brainmachine.mozganostroj.com A bit of this, a bit of that, stories, adventures, happenings, reflections and penguins. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:29:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sorry, this X is not available in your country. http://brainmachine.mozganostroj.com/2012/01/30/sorry-this-x-is-not-available-in-your-country/ http://brainmachine.mozganostroj.com/2012/01/30/sorry-this-x-is-not-available-in-your-country/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:29:14 +0000 sparkica http://brainmachine.mozganostroj.com/?p=372 Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Posterous • Tumblr • Email ]]> I can more than relate to the Jelmer’s blog post about annoying situations where this or that content is not available for people outside US. The other day I wanted to buy a book (fiction), the ‘teaser’ on the Amazon site got me interested. After clicking on “Buy with one click” on my Kindle I got this: “This title is not available for customers from your location in: Slovenia”. Why the hell not? I’m quite sure Amazon is not the one to blame for this…

Why don’t publishers finally embrace the e-change and work with it not against it? Why? I don’t frikin get it. Is it about the money? Yes? Then this is one of the reasons WHY they SHOULD change. Opening up might mean lower prices in short-term, but it brings more readers, more customers in the long term. If it’s about the politics… we’re screwed.

Authors, if you want to reach audience outside US use worldwide-Amazon-friendly publishers or use Amazon self-publishing … or any other non-discriminatory publishing service. Howgh.

Sorry, this blog post is not available in your country.

January 29, 2012 in Internet , Personal with 7 Comments It would be unimaginable. Unthinkable. Only making my blog available to people using the internet from within The Netherlands. Imagine you would only be able to visit websites hosted in your own country. This would drastically change the way and scale we use the internet.

via: jelmerdejong.com

 

 

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  • being mean to others,
  • not caring for anyone else or
  • being one of the porky characters in Orwell’s Animal farm…

but that’s not the pig category I have in mind.

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TalkToSelf

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