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[james_davis_nicoll]

Where to buy The March North by Graydon Saunders

How to buy The March North by Graydon Saunders

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[iayork.livejournal.com]

In the hope of saving some others a little time:

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Graydon_Saunders_The_March_North?id=MoIOAwAAQBAJ&hl=en

Buy the book. Then:

In the Google Play Store, go to My Books, then hover over the top-right-hand corner of the book cover and click on the three dots that appear. That should get you a popup menu in which the last entry is 'download epub.'

I believe iBooks will read this format by default, if you're on a mac. Otherwise there are ways of converting it to Kindle, etc.

Download fails with 404

[raja1999.livejournal.com]

I purchased the book and tried the steps given here. It fails for me; it shows an annoying captcha, then either gives me *another* captcha (which, I assume, means I didn't read the previous captcha correctly) or gives me a 404 error ("The requested URL ... was not found on this server.")

Later: Ok, I got it to work by using Firefox on Mac OS X. (The UI isn't as described here, but it can be figured out.)

Not aimed at you, but: Mr Saunders, *please* consider not punishing your customers this much!

Re: Download fails with 404

[ellarien]

Do you by any chance have more than one Google account? That might explain that behaviour, if you purchased under one but the browser thinks you're logged in as the other.

I think Google Play is really set up for Android users -- to whom the three-dots thing is a more obvious signifier of menu.

Re: Download fails with 404

[raja1999.livejournal.com]

No and yes. No I don't have more than one, but yes other members of my family use this machine occasionally. However: I had to log in to the "correct" account at the start of the process in order to see Google Play (and make my purchase). I would think that once I had done that, it should have handled the rest correctly. Perhaps Google should consider hiring someone who actually uses the internet :-P