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Old 08-29-2008, 07:59 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by mickitaz View Post
After 2 hours on the phone with support, they tell me that I should just be able to "buy" the book without the credit. It will allow me to download the book, and never credit my account.

Have you tried this? What are your thoughts. Again, thank you very much.
Yes, this is standard practice for the free classics offer. It's also the way to obtain the free books that Sony were giving away in their August offers. You go through the motions of making a purchase but the amount in the checkout appears as nil. Then you download the book(s).
On the plus side, Sony have more than a hundred books categorised as 'Sony Classics', so you get to have a choice.
On the minus side, these are automatic conversions of public domain books. The quality is not always good.
Try comparing them with our hand-crafted books in our book upload section. You will find better versions of most of the classics on offer. (If you haven't found it yet, then go to the blue bar towards the top of this page and click on 'Ebooks'.)

Incidentally BbeB is one of the names for the Sony proprietary format. The book will have an LRF file extension when there is no DRM and an LRX extension when it is DRM'd.
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