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Originally Posted by GeoffC
I've had an occasion with Fictionwise where, out of a 3 book series, 2 were in my required mobi format ist and last, and the middle book was only available in e-reader....crazy,
FW were unable to help so I had to go to BoB...
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I've seen this too. An example of this is book 5 (of 8) of the Southern Vampire Series "Dead as a Doornail." All the other books are available in multiple secure formats, but book 5 is not available (from Fictionwise) in mobiformat.
When I checked on mobipocket.com & BoB they both have it, but here's the thing: for whatever reason, the mobiformat is SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive than the other formats. BoB offers it in Adobe PDF, Lit & ereader formats for $7.99 (list price before savings). It then offers the Mobiformat separately for $22.95 (again, list price).
When I emailed Fictionwise about another book with similar circumstances they responded that it "due to a pricing dispute" (or something similar) they were not offering the mobiformat at this time.
Does anyone know what is up with this? In the above example books 6 & 7 are both "paperback" priced. Did the distributer or publisher or ??? just forget about #5 or ???
thanks
Vito