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phenomshel · 10-03-2010, 08:38 PM

I guess my favorite place to shop for ebooks is again Books on Board, since they have the Agency publishers back now. But during all that, as much as I read complaints about the Sony ebookstore, they are the ONLY ones who had Agency titles back in April, when all the hullabaloo was taking place with the Agency model crap, and NO ONE else had them. I have to give them props for that. (Yes, I realize that their cooperation probably made it easier to force everyone else into letting the publishers have their way with the Agency pricing model that is highly despised. But dang it, I wanted to read those books, and I didn't want to have to buy paper to do it! ).
But I've purchased from Fictionwise, Diesel, B&N, Amazon, also. Of those, probably my least favorites are Amazon and B&N, because you have to buy each title individually. My bank HATES that; and will sometimes refuse a sale because they think it's a duplicate transaction. I also MUCH prefer ePub as a format (and it's what my Sony Reader takes) so that's another strike against purchasing from Amazon. So I like Books on Board and Sony, where I can fill a cart and pay the whole amount at once.
Diesel has some stuff no one else has, even though a lot of the time they're way overpriced, and Fictionwise is good to find multiformat titles that no one else has, also.

10-03-2010, 08:38 PM	#33
phenomshel ZCD BombShel Posts: 4,793 Karma: 8293322 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA) Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis	I guess my favorite place to shop for ebooks is again Books on Board, since they have the Agency publishers back now. But during all that, as much as I read complaints about the Sony ebookstore, they are the ONLY ones who had Agency titles back in April, when all the hullabaloo was taking place with the Agency model crap, and NO ONE else had them. I have to give them props for that. (Yes, I realize that their cooperation probably made it easier to force everyone else into letting the publishers have their way with the Agency pricing model that is highly despised. But dang it, I wanted to read those books, and I didn't want to have to buy paper to do it! ). But I've purchased from Fictionwise, Diesel, B&N, Amazon, also. Of those, probably my least favorites are Amazon and B&N, because you have to buy each title individually. My bank HATES that; and will sometimes refuse a sale because they think it's a duplicate transaction. I also MUCH prefer ePub as a format (and it's what my Sony Reader takes) so that's another strike against purchasing from Amazon. So I like Books on Board and Sony, where I can fill a cart and pay the whole amount at once. Diesel has some stuff no one else has, even though a lot of the time they're way overpriced, and Fictionwise is good to find multiformat titles that no one else has, also.