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Even some of the independent MultiFormat stuff is disappearing, as I discovered when I went to pick up some older Mike Resnick sf novels I'd been meaning to get since their 40% off Anniversary sale a couple of months back and found out that all his longer works are no longer available, even though Resnick presumably owns the backlist rights, as they were "published" through "Fictionwise.com".
I can only hope this means he's intending to put them up on Baen's Webscription instead, but there's only two that I remember from the FW list which are currently over there.
They also no longer give the 5% extra discount for getting Secure eReader format, which seems in line with B&N's recent attempts to kill it off.
It's truly a shame. I didn't start buying there until after I'd gotten a Kindle earlier this year and started seriously looking around for e-books instead of hitting the used bookstore, and it sounded pretty nice while it lasted from what everyone else had to say.
But tonight I at least managed to pour a bit of money into the coffers of various sf/fantasy authors I like, which they wouldn't otherwise get from my hunting down their out-of-print works second-hand.
Thanks for the coupon. Much appreciated and I hope FW did well enough from the resulting sales that they do this again while they still offer the stuff I want.
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