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Elfwreck · 03-08-2011, 02:59 PM

Thank you! Grabbed them; I look forward to reading them.

They're available in 3 formats: HTML, LIT and PDF. Only one format goes into the cart at a time, but it's possible to go back & add the other formats to the cart. Checkout requires registration through the site, which wants a name & address in addition to email. Purchases can only be downloaded 5 times.

Warning note--the PDFs have atrocious metadata. Beauty and the Geek, for example, has the title as "Microsoft Word - BeautyAndTheGeek_w829.doc," and the author in the PDF Doc Info field is "Robbie Barrett," despite Roni Adams being listed on the cover, and the book being copyrighted by Rhonda Penders. (Presumably, Roni Adams is a pen name.) And they're not tagged; reflow may be awful.

But they're not locked, so they're editable/fixable. (And people can use the HTML version, but that doesn't have the cover art.)

I tried reading the TOS to sort out whether they claimed these are purchases or licensed uses; they seem to say "license" but the TOS is convoluted and rather lacking in info about the sales part of the site. It's not at all clear what they're claiming to sell.

03-08-2011, 02:59 PM	#2
Elfwreck Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,187 Karma: 25133758 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)	Thank you! Grabbed them; I look forward to reading them. They're available in 3 formats: HTML, LIT and PDF. Only one format goes into the cart at a time, but it's possible to go back & add the other formats to the cart. Checkout requires registration through the site, which wants a name & address in addition to email. Purchases can only be downloaded 5 times. Warning note--the PDFs have atrocious metadata. Beauty and the Geek, for example, has the title as "Microsoft Word - BeautyAndTheGeek_w829.doc," and the author in the PDF Doc Info field is "Robbie Barrett," despite Roni Adams being listed on the cover, and the book being copyrighted by Rhonda Penders. (Presumably, Roni Adams is a pen name.) And they're not tagged; reflow may be awful. But they're not locked, so they're editable/fixable. (And people can use the HTML version, but that doesn't have the cover art.) I tried reading the TOS to sort out whether they claimed these are purchases or licensed uses; they seem to say "license" but the TOS is convoluted and rather lacking in info about the sales part of the site. It's not at all clear what they're claiming to sell.