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Originally Posted by ladyplf
I'm curious, did everyone who got the email have an ereader.com account or a fictionwise account? Does anybody have both and have both accounts transfer over to B&N at the same time?
Why does this have to be so complicated? Certain formats that have died can't transfer and can't be downloaded? Right now ebooks are looking like a bad investment. If they really cared about their customers they'd send everyone a backup of their files on dvd or give them cloud access. This hurry up and grab em attitude is stupid.
And how long will B&N be around anyway, I've never shopped at that site and am not about to start now.
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I've only received one for my fictionwise account and not my ereader account. Every other company that shut down their proprietary ebook format service basically said download it now or else, unless they got permission from the publishers to format switch. I think Sony's about the only one to do the format switch so far, and it seems like B&N is essentially doing a format switch if you're a US or UK customer.
While B&N is a troubled company, they've got about 20% of the US ereader market and some sort of partnership with Microsoft, so I think the ereader company will survive even if B&N the retail bricks and mortar bookseller does not.