Comments on: Addressing mistakes I made in releasing Hacking Happy

By: David Gómez (@emsLinux)

David Gómez (@emsLinux) — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:27:51 +0000

You are right about the Cloud Reader, virtually we can read the book wherever we want. But, as you should know, kindle users never own the books they buy, and that bothers me a lot.

Anyway, thank you for your answer Dusty and good luck with your sells.

By: Dusty Phillips

Dusty Phillips — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:16:02 +0000

Unfortunately, because of Amazon’s closed ecosystem, I’m reluctant to open that can of worms. I don’t have access to the e-mail addresses of Kindle purchasers, so it’s impossible to contact them and keep the process streamlined.

If someone is purchasing through the Kindle store, I figure they are used to the environment Amazon has created. They are paying for the other services Kindle offers — such as cloud storage of your library — as well as the content. Further, Amazon takes a much heftier royalty than Gumroad, so I place the responsibility of keeping customers happy firmly in their hands!

That said, I did explicitly disable DRM when I uploaded Hacking Happy to the Kindle store to make it as easy as possible for users to access the content they purchased.

By: David Gómez

David Gómez — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 04:21:45 +0000

What about the people who bought it through Amazon for their Kindle, like me?