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Originally Posted by ATDrake
AddAll listing says "Wattpad" under each and every one of them. I'm kind of curious now about the rest of their "catalogue" and whether the remaining titles are as entertaining as the ones that made it to the freebie list, but I fear ever encountering their actual story contents.
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As for Sony, they really do have the worst of the major shopping sites.
Despite Kobobooks' deep and annoying flaws, at least they don't make you do every transaction through that horrible Reader Library app.
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They do, however, work at making the experience as bad as possible - searches are horrible, sorting by price removes free books, clicking on an author's name doesn't really limit the search to that author, no shopping cart and (from what I can tell), no gift certificates so you can avoid lots of tiny charges.
But, as you say, at least you are locked into the Sony software (to be fair, the Kobo software, at least the Borders version I had to use to get the Kobo reader working, is worse).
All that said, though -- I have to say that the iBooks app is worse yet. You can't see the store without having Apple hardware (and new enough to run the app; how long before today's iPads aren't allowed in the store?), browsing is pretty much awful (and there is no sort by price), as is pricing. If you do buy a book, most likely you can't read it anywhere else (although some happen to be DRM-free and can be converted/moved after backing them up via iTunes; there is, however, no indication of what you'll get before buying).