Thread: Free/Bargain Science Fiction & Fantasy in January 2014
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Old 01-30-2014, 04:49 AM   #101
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The angry robot store offers precious little or no information about the ebooks, except summaries and blurbs.
They've been in business for several years; it's not like they're some bunch of nobodies who just popped up with a big bag of mystery content. As for "precious little information" - summary blurbs are what most publishing houses use to promote their books. Why should Angry Robot be different? Are you under the (very mistaken) impression that they're a place like Smashwords that's an umbrella for automated self-publishing, or a fly-by-night indie bookstore?

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The least it could do is to offer sample excerpts, and book lengths.

I can't like a ebook company like this.


No, the least they could do would be to simply keep chugging along as they have been: producing and selling high-quality, DRM-free books at reasonable prices. Instead, they chose to offer a hundred customers a whopping good deal on the occasion of the publication of their hundredth book. If you don't want to take advantage of it, that's up to you, but there's no need to insult them for having a sale!

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You have to judge a book completely by its cover. It's just as bad as the kobo store.
Oh, sure. Except for the excellent service and total lack of DRM, they might as well be twins...
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