Fictionwise "Buywise" club better than free at present - NOW ENDED

[blak4dr]

I have a three year membership. In august, there was a special with all books at 100% rebate for 2 weeks. I still have 165 $ in my micropay account

The club membership has some nice little things from time to time. Check the mail they send you

[simond]

By the way, you can renew for 1 year more than once *cough*

[babyd]

Originally Posted by simond

By the way, you can renew for 1 year more than once *cough*

Aha, so you can, well done and thanks

[JSWolf]

I've just joined for a year and I did get the micropay rebate.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Doesn't matter. Buying an extra year just extends your membership by a year. It's better to renew early, in fact - it's $5 cheaper that way.

I'm already a member, having joined about 4 months ago. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that if I join, I'll be a member for about 22 more months?

I just added the membership to my cart and apparently the offer is still good. (I have yet to actually commit.)

I wonder what strategy this tells us about Fictionwise? Are they in need of an influx of capital, or is this just part of the different strategy (in a good way ) to get us hooked on buying from them?

I know that as a member for the past 4 months, I've bought just a little over 100 titles from them, as opposed to about 12 from Sony. The comparison may not be a good one, however, due to the higher prices at Sony -- ; although, come to think of it, Sony has released a number of free books lately, whereas Fictionwise typically makes available for free the yearly Nebula Award nominees in the shorter fiction categories only - and only available at a certain point in time.

Interesting....has anyone noticed a newer - heightened - level of freebies from legitimate publishers and authors? My thinking is that even the authors (as witness this site), are becoming more aggressive in the ebook marketing of their writings.

Don

[JSWolf]

As I see it, if you are a member of the club, once your micropay rebate is gone, you'll still be purchasing eBooks from them as a member.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

As I see it, if you are a member of the club, once your micropay rebate is gone, you'll still be purchasing eBooks from them as a member.

That's absolutely true. The mircopay rebate is YOUR money that is available to you to buy ebooks, but it's committed to them.

It's just a holding area.


Don

[SpiderMatt]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

So, buy the mobi format and deDrm it. Are you going to deDrm the lit version anyway?

BOb

Do you know if that works on Amazon's files for the Kindle?

[SpiderMatt]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I am not a member but I did receive the "specially selected" email. When I put the 1 year sub in my cart it does show the rebate. Not sure if I'll go for it as a Kindle owner I think I get just as good if not better prices at Amazon. But, heck I have 4 whole days to decide.

BOb

Except you can strip the DRM off lit files and get a nice HTML file from it. I don't know if you can take off Amazon's DRM yet.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

So, buy the mobi format and deDrm it. Are you going to deDrm the lit version anyway?

BOb

yes of course i was ; i have an eb1150 ; i can't read ANYTHING without converting it first. but converting lit to imp (the eb1150 format) is really easy, a matter of literally 2 clicks and about 15 seconds (thank you, nick). i have less experience with converting drmed mobi, how easy is it ? (i honestly cannot at this moment remember whether i've already done it or not, and if yes how well it worked). also i prefer lit format to mobi overall because it has a better constructed / richer core code structure, and therefore allows for better / cleaner conversions. mobi uses all sorts of odd proprietary code which i dislike on principle and which annoys me in practice because if you convert it it requires more cleaning up.

but yes, i suppose in this particular case if i don't want to wait i could just get the mobi version.

the annoying thing is, this book is *already* available in LIT format at Books on Board.

[igorsk]

Originally Posted by SpiderMatt

Except you can strip the DRM off lit files and get a nice HTML file from it. I don't know if you can take off Amazon's DRM yet.

Mobidedrm works on Amazon's azw files as they're just Mobi in disguise. Topaz (tpz/azw1) books use a different DRM which is not broken yet.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by SpiderMatt

Do you know if that works on Amazon's files for the Kindle?

Yes, mobidedrm works on Kindle eBooks. At least the ones I have used it on.

BOb

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

but converting lit to imp (the eb1150 format) is really easy, a matter of literally 2 clicks and about 15 seconds (thank you, nick). i have less experience with converting drmed mobi, how easy is it ?

You can use mobi2lit from mobiperl then go use your lit2imp.

mobeDeDrm is basically the same as convertlit. The main difference is that you provide the PID on the command line vs convertlit having the keys.txt file it looks at.

BOb

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

You can use mobi2lit from mobiperl then go use your lit2imp.

mobeDeDrm is basically the same as convertlit. The main difference is that you provide the PID on the command line vs convertlit having the keys.txt file it looks at.

BOb

oh yay. perl scripts and command lines.

i *can* do that ; but i need help with it, and it's not nearly as easy as converting a lit book directly.

this is why i prefer to buy lit books. (well, that and the format is better.)

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh yay. perl scripts and command lines.

i *can* do that ; but i need help with it, and it's not nearly as easy as converting a lit book directly.

this is why i prefer to buy lit books. (well, that and the format is better.)

I'd be happy to help. PM me if you want. You are running windows, yes?

BOb