Magic bleeds (#4) by Ilona Andrews

Preferred format: Audiobook
Attempted place of purchase: iTunes, Audible, Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available in preferred digital format
Price of Lost Sale: 35 AUD – Australian Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: Publishing rights restrict this book from being sold asan audio file directly to Australia but can be purchased via mail. This does not make sense. Sad that this is happening to a lot of books

Agent: Unknown

Fate’s Edge by Ilona Andrews

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase:
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available digitally in region
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: New Zealand
What you did instead: Other Re-read another book by this author.

Comments: Very disappointing – have tried everywhere to buy a digital version of this book but can’t seem to do so because of where I live. Have stumbled over many pirated copies in my efforts, but consider this to be theft. Getting desperate though . . .

Agent: Unknown

Fate’s Edge by Ilona Andrews

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Books on Board (restricted), Kobo (unavailable for NZ buyers)
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: New Zealand
What you did instead: Other looked for a book from a different author

Comments: No longer following this author. Given up trying to buy eBooks from authors and publishers who don’t want my money. It is really disappointing not to be able to support them and buy their latest release in the format that I want to read it in. It is ridiculous in this day and age that geographical restrictions apply No eBook available for me to purchase on release date, no sale. There are plenty of other authors out there that publish books where geographical restrictions do not apply and I have found plenty of new-to-me authors to replace the ever increasing number of agency authors that I can now no longer buy and support.

Agent: Unknown

First Truth by Dawn Cook

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Other Formatting problems
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Other Read paper edition of this book

Comments: I purchased this (and the three other books in the series) in paperback many years ago. I finally sat down to read my paper edition and realized how tiny the print was. The publisher/author would have had another sale if:
1 – Each paragraph didn’t have extra space between each other
and
2 – The ebook wasn’t priced the same as the print edition

99.9% of the time I refuse to purchase ebooks if they’re the same price as the print edition, however, because the text was so small, I would have made an exception for this book. I downloaded free samples of each book in this 4-book series, and every single one has the same formatting problem. Pure and simple, it’s bad customer service to offer a full priced item that has defects.

Agent: Unknown

Heroes At Risk by Moira J. Moore

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Read fan fiction or a different book

Comments: This is the 5th book in this series and I’ve borrowed each one from my library as they’ve been released. I would love to go back and buy each book and re-read the entire series on my kindle. However, since the kindle edition is the same price as the print edition, I won’t buy it.

Agent: Unknown

Heroes Return by Moira J. Moore

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Read fan fiction or a different book

Comments: This is the 4th book in this series and I’ve borrowed each one from my library as they’ve been released. I would love to go back and buy each book and re-read the entire series on my kindle. However, since the kindle edition is the same price as the print edition, I won’t buy it.

Agent: Unknown

Heroes Adrift by Moira J. Moore

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Read fan fiction or a different book

Comments: This is the 3rd book in this series and I’ve borrowed each one from my library as they’ve been released. I would love to go back and buy each book and re-read the entire series on my kindle. However, since the kindle edition is the same price as the print edition, I won’t buy it.

Agent: Unknown

The Hero Strikes Back by Moira J. Moore

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Read fan fiction or a different book

Comments: This is the 2nd book in this series and I’ve borrowed each one from my library as they’ve been released. I would love to go back and buy each book and re-read the entire series on my kindle. However, since the kindle edition is the same price as the print edition, I won’t buy it.

Agent: Unknown

Resenting the Hero by Moira J. Moore

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Read fan fiction or a different book

Comments: This is the 1st book in this series and I’ve borrowed each one from my library as they’ve been released. I would love to go back and buy each book and re-read the entire series on my kindle. However, since the kindle edition is the same price as the print edition, I won’t buy it.

Agent: Unknown

Heroes at Odds by Moira J. Moore

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Borrowed a book from the library

Comments: This is the 6th book in this series and I’ve borrowed each one from my library as they’ve been released. I would love to go back and buy each book and re-read the entire series on my kindle. However, since the kindle edition is the same price as the print edition, I won’t buy it.

Agent: Unknown

Killbox by Ann Aguirre

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: B&N
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Other I broke down and bought the MMP edition because I can’t get these books any other way with a discount.

Comments: Here’s a perfect example of a book I wanted, couldn’t get from the library or UBS, but it’s OK to use a retailer’s coupon on the print format and not on the digital format. Idiot publishers. I’m angry that I had to cave on this one, but I can’t burn my favorite authors because the publishers are behaving badly.

Agent: Unknown

The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught by Jack Campbell

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 12.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Borrowed a book from the library

Comments: Real pity, since I like the author and wanted to give him money.

Agent: Unknown

Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel by Charlaine Harris

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 14.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: Costs more than hardcover so I decided not to purchase despite buying every other book in the series.

Agent: Unknown

Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 9.65 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Poland
What you did instead: Pirated a copy

Comments: Paperback costs 7.99$ Im not going to pay for ebook more than for any kind of printed one.
and once and for all F**K DRM!!!

Agent: Unknown

The Dragon Book by Gardner Dozois

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available digitally in region
Price of Lost Sale: 12.00 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Watched a movie

Comments:

Agent: Unknown

Ghost Of A Chance by Simon Green

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available digitally in region
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Surfed the web

Comments:

Agent: Unknown

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available in preferred digital format
Price of Lost Sale: 9.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments:

Agent: Unknown

Death’s Excellent Vacation by Charlaine Harris

Preferred format: Mass Market Paperback
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Only available in hardcover
Price of Lost Sale: 11.34 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: United Kingdom
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: Amazon does have a (trade) paperback version listed, but it’s not coming out until August 2012 – 2 years after the hardback. It’s publisher is Gollancz, so it looks like different publishers have paperback and hardback rights. At over £11, it’s the wrong format and too much money.

Agent: Unknown

Wolfsbane by Patricia Briggs

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: ebooks.com (restricted), Books on Board (restricted), Kobo (unavailable for NZ buyers)
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available digitally in region
Price of Lost Sale: 6.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: New Zealand
What you did instead: Other Looked for more new-to-me authors at Samhain Publishing, Carina Press etc

Comments:

Agent: Unknown

Echo by Jack McDevitt

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available in preferred digital format
Price of Lost Sale: 11.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Surfed the web

Comments:

Agent: Unknown

The Good, The Bad and the Uncanny by Simon Green

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available digitally in region
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Surfed the web

Comments:

Agent: Unknown

Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available in preferred digital format
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Other Format shifted a copy.

Comments:

Agent: Unknown

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Other Format shifted a copy.

Comments:

Agent: Unknown

Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available in preferred digital format
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Other Format shifted a copy.

Comments:

Agent: Unknown