Amazon and Penguin are bickering, and the Kindle edition of “Changes” has been caught up in the crossfire. Fans around the world are getting email notifications from Amazon that their “Changes” preorders have been canceled.
Jim had no say in this decision, and he’s already received an outpouring of mail from fans perplexed and angered at this chain of events. We know many of you were relying on this being available on release day, and we’re every bit as frustrated as you are. We’re confident the conflict will not be drawn out much longer, but we have no way of knowing if it will be resolved in time for the book’s Tuesday release. We have no doubt that “Changes” will be available for the Kindle at some point, but whether that’s tomorrow, next week, or next month is anyone’s guess.
We hope this doesn’t unduly inconvenience you guys, and we thank you for bearing with us in this exceptionally annoying time.
Thanks so much for the update; I was just coming here to find out if there was a problem.
I’m sorry your book got caught in the crossfire between Amazon and Penguin. I’ll buy the real copy and send it to my sister when the Kindle version drops.
Looking forward as always to reading another Dresden Files!
Sorry to hear about the bickering, hope it all works out OK. Would love to have it on my Kindle, but I’m not adverse to getting the print version if necessary. Can’t wait to get my hands on it either way 🙂
Will “Changes” be available via Barnes & Noble for the “Nook”?
I noticed yesterday all of Dresden File books were gone from http://www.eReader.com. In fact, searching for them by name and for “Jim Butcher” yielded no results, where the whole series had been online just the day before. I hope this gets resolved soon!
It seems to be taken down from all Ebook stores. Ugg I have moved away from the paper medium and so have others like me. I know its not your fault jim.
Well, that is strange because I got the book (the kindle version) Thursday morning (April 1).
I’ll be holding off on buying. I prefer the Kindle edition and if I switch and buy a hardcover then that rewards the publisher. Sorry Jim.
Sorry to hear you have to put up with this, Jim. As much as I enjoy my kindle, Amazon can be a little monolithic to deal with!
I think I can find shelf space for another hardback. Well, another Jim Butcher hardback, anyway…
Oh, this is soooo annoying. I wait anxiously for the day when authors can publish their own works to e-readers directly. It’s coming but, like Changes, not dang soon enough!
This is not an Amazon issue, this is a Publisher issue. Publishers are afraid of the growth of e-books and are trying to do what they can to force e-book users to buy the HC. Too bad, I would have paid $14.95 for the Kindle version on the day it was released, now I will wait until it is less then $10.00 to buy it. The publisher, and JIm, lose money because the Publisher is afraid of e-books. Sorry that Jim suffers due to his Publishers belief in an outdated marketing model.
This is disappointing to say the least I received my kindle in January and my first purchase was Storm Front. I have since purchased and read the entire Dresden series and the entire Codex Alera series and was seriously looking forward to Changes.
Jim keep up the great work, hope they can figure out a way to resolve this issue.
I’ve never seen a digital copy of changes listed on Barnes and Noble.com… even before this recent update. I thought that was a bit odd, anybody know anything about it?
Very disappointed — was perfectly willing to pay $12.60 or whatever for the Kindle version on release day. Now I won’t be buying at all until this is straightened out. I am not buying fiction in paper format any more, no matter what. If I have to read a paper version, I will get it from the library.
It’s a shame that authors can’t work together to pressure publishers into acting reasonably when it comes to ebooks.
I too will purchase the kindle version if made available. Jim was kind to send a personal note to my e-mail last week when I noticed the Amazon cancellation. He mentioned “There are two sides to every story. It seems you’ve heard Amazon’s.” Actually I have NOT heard Amazon’s answer. But to make up for potential lost sales, they have lowered the hard copy price — and losing about $2.00/copy by paying Penguins wholesale price out of pocket! At least SOMEBODY is looking out for Jim’s financial interests, even though Penguin/Roc could care less
B&N uses the same format and readers as eReader. Some electronic titles can be found on B&N & eReader that aren’t on Amazon, and vice-versa, but none have Changes. Older Dresden ebooks are still showing up as available on Amazon, but not B&N or eReader – which seems to have lost about half it’s catalog. It looks like this is certain publishers pulling their ebooks from everywhere, not just Amazon.
Will it be available in the nook? I plan to buy both for collecting reasons, but I would prefer to read it on my nook if I could! Please let me know!
it appears on ibooks thought I wonder if it is an issue there as well
I’m really sorry to hear that Jim’s been caught in the crossfire. Unfortunately, I won’t be purchasing the book until it’s available on Kindle. It bugs me since i’ve been reading Jim’s stuff since the beginning.
Maybe i’ll just get the audiobook from audible instead.
Didn’t Amazon just go thru a big bruhaha with another publisher about the pricing for eBooks?
That publisher wanted to raise the pricing to around $15.00 instead of the $9.00 folks are used to.
I get that it is not Jim’s fault, but it is still very frustrating. Amazon and the publishers keep up these stupid fights and the consumers are the ones that suffer as we get caught in the middle. I was really looking forward to starting in on changes tonight. Guess not.