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Offline winmillp Reading Buttons and Beaus by Shannah Blondine
26 May 2012, 02:52 PM | Post: #1

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smashwords and amazon

Hi Can anyone tell me why I can't download direct to my kindle from the smashwords site.? I download from all the others ; obooko , all romance, even elora's cave but the smashwords will not allow the download. As I do not have a computer only my blackberry and my kindle it makes it hard for me to buy from smashwords. Have they got some sort of agreement. Or is there a way round it.?
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Offline JamesParkin Reading Safe House by Chris Ewan
22 Jun 2012, 08:53 AM | Post: #2

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RE: smashwords and amazon

(26 May 2012 02:52 PM)winmillp Wrote:  Hi Can anyone tell me why I can't download direct to my kindle from the smashwords site.? I download from all the others ; obooko , all romance, even elora's cave but the smashwords will not allow the download. As I do not have a computer only my blackberry and my kindle it makes it hard for me to buy from smashwords. Have they got some sort of agreement. Or is there a way round it.?

I'm afraid I don't know the answer, but I can't believe that there is an agreement stopping Kindle owners from downloading from Smashwords. I say this because when I uploaded my books to Smashwords they made a big thing about how a lot of Kindle owners buy their books from Smashwords.

Authors do have the option to disable the mobi format when uploading their work (although Smashwords strongly advises against this) so is it just individual titles that cannot be downloaded?
Offline winmillp Reading Buttons and Beaus by Shannah Blondine
27 Jun 2012, 04:00 PM | Post: #3

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RE: smashwords and amazon

When I asked Smashwords about it. They said I could download to my computer then transfer them. But that makes things complicated . Why when other sites like all romance let you download over the wi fi .
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