Quote:
Originally Posted by anamardoll
I don't disagree with that, except with the obvious "no one actually knows the unit numbers sold and kept" caveats.
|
World wide more readers are sold that handle ePub. But of those, most are not B&N DRM friendly. The number of Kindles world wide vs readers that handle B&N DRM is greater.
Quote:
|
If you, Random Indie Author, are confident that you don't need my money: great! But I honestly don't owe you a purchase, I'm tired of being told "no, I'm Amazon-exclusive, but google Apprentice Alf!" when that misses my point entirely, and it's a little tiresome when I buy books from you (Random Indie Author) and then you yank your title off B&N and my download link goes wonky. I think I have the right to be touchy when I pay money for a title only to have it taken away.
|
I can see this scenario happening and if it every happened to me, I would be pissed...
At B&N you can buy an eBook for someone as a gift. So if someone was to buy an eBook for me as a gift and before I got a chance to download it, it was pulled to go be sold exclusively at Amazon, I would be pissed big time. That would be the author stealing the book from me.
Now to all authors here who feel it's OK to go exclusive with Amazon, do you really want to risk stealing eBook(s) from people?