{"id":2698,"date":"2010-07-22T20:46:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2010-07-26T23:39:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:39:16","slug":"status-update-on-kindle-australia-still-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2698","title":{"rendered":"Status update on Kindle Australia:  Still shit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2474\" title=\"tfwbookclub\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The other day when I decided that I wanted a new book to read, I remembered that I caught a glance at Stephen King&#8217;s novel <em>Under The Dome<\/em> at Borders and it had piqued my interest.\u00a0 The story of a smalltown in America which inexplicably gets trapped underneath a magical forcefield sounded like just the right amount of gimmicky nonsense to appeal to my sensibilities.\u00a0 Plus the book was a thousand pages long so it was going to be handy to have around for my upcoming 25 hour plane ride to the UK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Great!\u00a0 Time to bust out the ol&#8217; Kindle and it&#8217;ll be on my eReader in under a minute.\u00a0 I went to Amazon.com and there it was for a measely $9 bucks.\u00a0 I click &#8216;download&#8217; and up comes an error message:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">YOU CAN&#8217;T DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK BECAUSE YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA LOL &#8211; JEFF BEZOS<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It appears that Amazon have begun blocking offshore attempts at logging into American Amazon accounts and downloading from their Kindle store.\u00a0 They&#8217;re re-enforcing that you have to download ebooks from the Australian Kindle store instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So I went to the Australian Kindle store to get a copy of the book instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SHITOUTTALUCK\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You&#8217;re telling me that a book written by Stephen Freakin&#8217; King that is nearly a year old still isn&#8217;t available on the Australia Kindle store.\u00a0 <strong>Listen you jerks: I&#8217;m trying to give you money!<\/strong> Let me give you AUS$10 for a widely available mainstream book that isn&#8217;t new and is written by a bestselling author.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fed up, I went to another website and uh, lets just say I&#8217;m on chapter five now and am highly enjoying the book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So here we are in 2010 and the iBook store in Australia has precisely <strong>zero<\/strong> books for sale and the Australian Kindle store is still totally gimped.\u00a0 Lame.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2699\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/underthedome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2699\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2699\" title=\"underthedome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/underthedome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/underthedome.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/underthedome-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under the dome - a book about Mike&#39;s head<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day when I decided that I wanted a new book to read, I remembered that I caught a glance at Stephen King&#8217;s novel Under The Dome at Borders and it had piqued my interest.\u00a0 The story of a smalltown in America which inexplicably gets trapped underneath a magical forcefield sounded like just the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[595,597,596,447],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-amazon","tag-ereader","tag-ibook","tag-kindle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}