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Originally Posted by Marioninyc
My question to those who have been so disappointed with e-books is this: Were you able to sample? Didn't that give you some idea what you were in for?
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Now? Yes. A few years ago, when Fictionwise was pretty much the only game in town? No. And they didn't allow reviews either. So if it was an indie book and not reviewed on Amazon or elsewhere, you took your chances based on the blurb. And sometimes, wound up with a lot of crapola.
Just because other sites *now* have samples does not mean this was always the case, and you should probably not be quite so presumptuous and smug about this issue
You don't know how it is, or was, for every book. Now, sampling is commonplace but it was not always so and not all vendors had this feature.