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06-17-2010, 06:19 PM | #33 |
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I bet this is related to BN opening up with Pubit, their new version of Amazons.DTP. Since Pubit is about to launch, the closing of Fictionwise is very coincidental...
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06-17-2010, 09:09 PM | #34 |
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Does anyone else read that stupid name as "Pube It" or is it just me?
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You could be right, although FW's Multiformat services are a lot different than something like DTP or PubIt.
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Gee, a big corporation killing off a successful small one? Yeah, like that's never happened before. *rolls eyes* Well, bye, bye fictionwise. It was nice knowing you. Heck, maybe if the guys at Fictionwise are smart, they'll all jump ship and start their own competing service. I've seen plenty of others do that before. And besides, if B&N did buy them and is trying to forcefully sink the ship, then I think they need to switch ships and torpedo their former one.
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The Wall Street Journal ran an article a couple of months ago about how entities that are acquired by BN seen to disapear shortly thereafter.
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Capid: I agree with you, the name "Pubit" is very lame.
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Yeah, in the tech world we had several names for that. The most recent, and the one that stuck the most was "doing a Microsoft". IE, Microsoft would see a small company that they felt was dangerous competition, and would promptly buy it up and kill it dead as a doornail. Seagate did that with Conner, and Intel has done that numerous times to other companies as well. It's like SOP in the corporate world. Don't compete. Just crush the competition into oblivion.
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06-19-2010, 06:35 AM | #42 |
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I've got to spend this last 31 bucks in micropay quickly. Hopefully the Rex Stout books keep coming steadily until I can spend it all. I'm wondering how much longer FW will even be open.
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Or you got lucky. It's hard to say what will happen to your remaining issues if FW goes away. It's possible it would convert to a paper subscription.
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This really makes no sense. Fictionwise's 6/15 eBook newsletter just contained ads for magazine subscriptions! What is wrong with them?!
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