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Old 04-25-2012, 07:12 PM   #764
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Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
I used to buy a lot of ebooks at Fictionwise but stopped long before agency pricing. Fictionwise never grew iwth either its customers or its quantity of books. It had a very poor filtering scheme and did nothing to make searching easier as the number of titles it carried grew. I found that to find new books to buy, I'd have to spend hours going through the subject-matter list. After about 15 minutes of searching, I simply gave up.

(FWIW, this is also a problem at Smashwords although the filtering has gotten better. With all the titles Smashwords carries, it really needs a much better filtering system to encourage buyers to look for titles.)

From my perspective, FW was rapidly becoming a has been long before agency pricing. Its club discounts and other discounts weren't worth anything if I couldn't find a book to buy. Even now when FW offers large weekend discounts I don't bother going to the site. It is simply too difficult to find a book to buy.
It also didn't help that B&N yanked all of the Agency 6 books even before they anounced the pricing collusion scheme.

But I was happy to shop the drm free multifomat books until they proceeded to get rid of the great deals & micropay system. After that it just wasn't worth it anymore. But until that happened I dropped quite a bit of money at FW.

I have no problems with Amazon, but I absolutely HATE B&N for what they did to FW. So if they go under, I will throw a party.
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