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Acquiring the full Safehold series to date

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Acquiring the full Safehold series to date
Post by joshua   » Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:12 pm

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Looking around this is the only place I've found here on-site re the Safehold series. If there's a more suitable place for this, please let me know.

Modestly speaking ;), I have a sort of unique problem. I have the first four books, the first two as DRM ebooks which are no longer accessible due my forgetfullness and to the seller going out of business, and the second two as paperbacks.

I'd like to acquire the whole series as ebooks, preferably in the .html format that matches the Baen items I buy.

My problem arises due to my having retired to Thailand; none of the sellers of the Safehold series will sell into Thailand. Apparently this is due to DRM concerns.

As a retiree I need to watch my outgo which is one reason I buy ebooks. The next best is buying used from Powell's in Portland, but I'd rather Dave get something out of my purchase.

Any ideas gratefully accepted :)

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Re: Acquiring the full Safehold series to date
Post by Duckk   » Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:49 pm

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Only OAR was in HTML, due to a pilot program with Baen. They no longer do that.

IIRC, Tor sells ebooks without DRM. Could you go through Amazon US?
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Re: Acquiring the full Safehold series to date
Post by Randomiser   » Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:34 pm

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Depends to a large extent where your money is. If you still have a US bank card to pay for your books with, there are anonymising services which will allow you to appear to be connecting from elsewhere to the store of your choice to avoid their disinclination to sell into Thailand. Not being an expert on Thai law I could not comment on the legal position of such a practice.
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Re: Acquiring the full Safehold series to date
Post by SWM   » Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:32 pm

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Duckk wrote:Only OAR was in HTML, due to a pilot program with Baen. They no longer do that.

IIRC, Tor sells ebooks without DRM. Could you go through Amazon US?

That is correct--all titles from Tor/Forge are sold without DRM.
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Re: Acquiring the full Safehold series to date
Post by Hildum   » Thu Jan 15, 2015 1:46 am

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The entire series is available electronically via iTunes.
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Re: Acquiring the full Safehold series to date
Post by chrisd   » Thu Jan 15, 2015 7:35 am

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If someone can get them to me electronically before Tuesday 20th January I can copy them to memory stick and carry them to Thailand when I fly out on the 21st.

After that it's merely a matter of the Thai Postal Service(unless you're in Pattaya, Joshua, when hand-carry is free)
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Re: Acquiring the full Safehold series to date
Post by DirkF   » Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:13 am

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We can only suggest sites that sell the ebooks, and you have to check if those sites are blocked for you or not.

I had the same problem - most of the regular shops don't sell the Safehold books to Germany (or didn't do so two years ago). After some searching I found kobo, they do sell them in Germany and perhaps they also sell them for you:

http://store.kobobooks.com/de-DE/ebook/ ... ighty-army
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Re: Acquiring the full Safehold series to date
Post by fallsfromtrees   » Thu Jan 15, 2015 7:18 pm

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If you don't wish to deal with Amazon, Barnes & Noble also sell the DRM free versions of all of the books, these are in epub format, which most e-readers can handle.
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Re: Acquiring the full Safehold series to date
Post by KokoAp   » Fri Jan 16, 2015 11:07 am

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Folks, I haven't recently tried, but neither iTunes, nor Amazon would sell me the last two e-books (living in Lebanon), so, whether they are DRM-free or not was immaterial.
- Rant mode -
Why can't other publishers emulate Baen?
We are not going to steal the books, and in any case, as soon as the books are published, somebody scans and posts them on the net anyway
- Rant mode off -
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Re: Acquiring the full Safehold series to date
Post by SWM   » Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:58 pm

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KokoAp wrote:Folks, I haven't recently tried, but neither iTunes, nor Amazon would sell me the last two e-books (living in Lebanon), so, whether they are DRM-free or not was immaterial.
- Rant mode -
Why can't other publishers emulate Baen?
We are not going to steal the books, and in any case, as soon as the books are published, somebody scans and posts them on the net anyway
- Rant mode off -

Um--"we are not going to steal the books" and "as soon as the books are published, somebody scans and posts them on the net" are obviously in conflict. Somebody obviously is stealing the books.

I don't want to argue in favor of DRM (as a librarian, I see a number of problems with DRM), but you are basically arguing that a store should not put security tags on any of their products because YOU aren't the one who is stealing from them.

When you are arguing against DRM, you should probably use better arguments. :)
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