Friday, October 20, 2006
update on my thesis
More than one week ago, I found that amazon.com was selling my thesis for $70. I sent an email noitce to amazon.com asking them to stop that last Friday. So far, I have not got any reply from amazon.com yet.
Today, I called Proquest, which is the publisher. I was told that they had the right to sell my thesis through their database as well as any third party vendors. I was forced to sign the agreement before my defense. :P That means amazon.com doesn't do anything wrong and I was making a fuss. The publisher also told me that if they sold any, I should be able to receive a check from them. That sounds sweet. So I updated my address immediately. Before I hung up the phone, I asked the last question. How many copies have you sold yet? After 10 secondes, I got the answer. NONE. Damn!
Continue to sell it, amazon.com. Amazon rocks.
Today, I called Proquest, which is the publisher. I was told that they had the right to sell my thesis through their database as well as any third party vendors. I was forced to sign the agreement before my defense. :P That means amazon.com doesn't do anything wrong and I was making a fuss. The publisher also told me that if they sold any, I should be able to receive a check from them. That sounds sweet. So I updated my address immediately. Before I hung up the phone, I asked the last question. How many copies have you sold yet? After 10 secondes, I got the answer. NONE. Damn!
Continue to sell it, amazon.com. Amazon rocks.
# posted by yaping @ 12:56 PM 
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如果你是男僧,强烈b4不留名字.
如果你是美女,热烈欢迎留言.
不过要是留个名就更完美了...
Anyway, I'm just reporting the progress to the friends who care for me. Folks gave me many suggestions after my last post, and I followed some of the suggestions to follow up.
如果你是美女,热烈欢迎留言.
不过要是留个名就更完美了...
Anyway, I'm just reporting the progress to the friends who care for me. Folks gave me many suggestions after my last post, and I followed some of the suggestions to follow up.
Just received this from amazon.com one week after my complaint...
Thank you for your interest in Amazon.com’s eBooks program (and thanks for your patience during this initial response period).
Please "Reply" to this email with a classification of yourself as either an author, author and publisher, or publisher in the subject line after completing the following information so that we can properly respond to your request:
1. What publishing company do you represent? (If you are the author, please enter “author” and the name of the publishing company you work with)
2. Your contact information:
Name:
Professional title:
Business address:
Email address:
Phone number:
3. Please list the ISBNs of the books you are considering making available as eBooks:
4. For these titles listed, do you own the digital rights (rights to sell books in a digital format ) ?
If the answer is no (or you are unsure) we also recommend that you contact your publisher directly to make your books available as eBooks.
We are working with publishers to expand the selection of eBooks available to customers.
Thank you again for your interest and support of Amazon.com’s eBooks program.
Thank you for completing this form. We will process your email and follow up with further information.
We appreciate your interest.
Sincerely,
The Amazon.com Digital Books Team
http://www.amazon.com/digitalbooks
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Thank you for your interest in Amazon.com’s eBooks program (and thanks for your patience during this initial response period).
Please "Reply" to this email with a classification of yourself as either an author, author and publisher, or publisher in the subject line after completing the following information so that we can properly respond to your request:
1. What publishing company do you represent? (If you are the author, please enter “author” and the name of the publishing company you work with)
2. Your contact information:
Name:
Professional title:
Business address:
Email address:
Phone number:
3. Please list the ISBNs of the books you are considering making available as eBooks:
4. For these titles listed, do you own the digital rights (rights to sell books in a digital format ) ?
If the answer is no (or you are unsure) we also recommend that you contact your publisher directly to make your books available as eBooks.
We are working with publishers to expand the selection of eBooks available to customers.
Thank you again for your interest and support of Amazon.com’s eBooks program.
Thank you for completing this form. We will process your email and follow up with further information.
We appreciate your interest.
Sincerely,
The Amazon.com Digital Books Team
http://www.amazon.com/digitalbooks
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