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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
I bought the Harry Dresden short story collection titled "Side Jobs" from them
as an .acsm (ADE link to the .epub) which Google describes as an EPUB.
It turned out ok, but as it stands now I will only consider Google as a last
resort for a really hard to find ebook.
If any other distributor had products that demonstrated such poor quality
control, they would not survive very long. They will never be considered
the the "Newegg" of ebook retailing, not if they have results as reflected
in this thread.
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My purchase (William Irish/Cornell Woolrich's
Phantom Lady) did not have DRM. Maybe the books that have DRM have gone through some better processing for epub conversion? The only sample that was available for my viewing was the pdf, not the epub. And of course I had no way of knowing if it had DRM or not.
It all just seems hit or miss. While Google was thankfully very prompt in issuing a refund, I imagine if I try again, get a messy file, and ask for another refund, they might well be less accommodating.
And I couldn't find books that interested me, anyway--no
Marjorie Morningstar, no
Forever Amber, no Shirley Jackson beyond the one volume every other store has.