[Katsunami]

This is crap. I've bought some books from BooksOnBoard, for quite good prices.

We are "expected" to buy stuff from Bol.com or Kobo here in the Netherlands, but the first is certainly not going to happen. Some ePubs at Bol happily cost exactly the same or more than the paperback versions, and Kobo is often only slightly cheaper. I don't buy at Amazon.com because I want my base format to be ePub.

The possible demise of BooksOnBoard shows that I've been right all along the last 10+ years, when hollering and screaming: "Download your stuff! Remove the DRM! Create Backups! If you cannot do this, then don't buy! Don't trust the seller!" BooksOnBoard provides downloads: for now. Many other stores don't, be it for books, music or games.

I hope they come back, because I'd hate to loose a good source for ePubs.

The stores I've been using are Diesel EBooks, BooksOnBoard, Kobo and Feedbooks, always picking the cheapest for a particular book. What I'd like is a way to buy books at Waterstones, Foyles, or WHSmith in the UK: They often have good prices too, but I can't buy from them either because I'm not in the UK, or don't have a UK credit card. (If at all possible, I'd like to not use proxies or other "illegal" means to trick them.)

edit: WHSmiths links to the Kobo website; the price at Kobo in Euro's is actually higher than the price at WHSmiths' site, when converting from pounds to euro's.