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Old 11-30-2009, 07:26 PM   #16
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How do you get books from Google? Are they all poorly formatted?

As above or just with a browser and download the epub or mobi as available and desired. There are definitely some nasty ones in the mix.
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For UK readers, WHSmiths is an option for buying ebooks and audiobooks. I read a lot of Agatha Christie novels and they are mostly under £3 here which is an excellent price. Had no problems downloading and using. Excellent prices on the new sony readers as well - best I've seen anywhere.

But most of my books come free from feedbooks which I've found to be an excellent source of epub books. Very nicely formatted too.
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Old 12-01-2009, 06:58 AM   #18
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It seems you guys seem to go to specific sites for specific formats. Don't you find that annoying?

Wouldn't you prefer one location for all formats?
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Old 12-01-2009, 07:14 AM   #19
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Wouldn't you prefer one location for all formats?

I'd prefer one common format - period.
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Wouldn't you prefer one location for all formats?
Doesn't annoy me - I enjoy hunting down various ebooks, part of the thrill of reading. For instance I've a big list of all the Agatha Christie novels and short story collections which I get a kick out of finding online. Some are not yet available as ebooks so I can't get them all. But if I could just waltz over to one location and buy the whole lot in one go - well where is the thrill in that?

Or maybe I just have weird ideas!
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Fictionwise and Webscriptions. I look around at Smashwords occasionally. I don't buy DRM'd ebooks.

I've bought some from Samhain and OmniLit, but their store interfaces drive me buggy; I now wind up looking at books at the publisher's sites, and then checking to see if they've been ported to Fictionwise. (Which usually has better discounts anyway. And more file formats.)
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It seems you guys seem to go to specific sites for specific formats.
Not true in my case. I go to different sites to compare price and content, just as with any other product.
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It's not buying but I'm partial to the Baen Free library. I'm just getting started (dont even have a reader yet) so I haven't compared the regular Baen prices to the same books anywhere else yet.
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I haven't compared the regular Baen prices to the same books anywhere else yet.
I don't think the Baen books are available anywhere else. (If they are, they cost more.) Baen's prices for ebooks are absolutely the best--about $5 for a single new, in-print book, or $15 for a set of 3-5 books. (You don't get to pick the set.) Older books are sometimes $5-6 for a set of two or three combined. And an incredible selection of their ebooks are available for free. Some are in the library, and some are released on CDs with the hardcovers, and the CD contents are freely reproduced on the web. (With Baen's blessings. They like new readers.)

Baen is the model we wish all ebook sellers would use. Multiple filetypes, no DRM, prices low enough to encourage impulse buys, free samples of everything, and absolutely no fuss about file sharing. (They seem to know that many of their books that aren't in the free library or on the CDs, are available through the darknet. They don't seem consider those "lost sales" any more than they consider yard sales full of books "lost sales.")

So far, their method is working.
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Doesn't annoy me - I enjoy hunting down various ebooks, part of the thrill of reading. For instance I've a big list of all the Agatha Christie novels and short story collections which I get a kick out of finding online. Some are not yet available as ebooks so I can't get them all. But if I could just waltz over to one location and buy the whole lot in one go - well where is the thrill in that?

Or maybe I just have weird ideas!

I know what you mean! I feel the same the way too, the reward of actually finding/reading the book you wanted is a lot sweeter when you have to search!!!
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