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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
If I could get my books cheaper at the Publisher site I would do it but the site would have to be easy to use and sell the book in a format I can use. I would love DRM free but that is a pipe dream.
I am not worried about different stores, I can bookmark the sites I use. I can see what I want to buy on Amazon and buy somewhere else if they are less expensive.
The Publishers can sell direct but they don't. That is their own damn fault.
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In the UK we have Sainsbury ebooks, Partnered with HarperCollins and the Random Penguin (Used to be aNobii before HMV sold up for £1) so they are at least trying to set up their own.
Random house used to have rbooks.co.uk (It was bloody afwul though), seems to be just a mirror of randomhouse uk site since the sainsburys site went up.
When you click buy on the link in one of their ebooks on the Random House site it gives you a fair few options as well as buyin direct from them :-
Amazon Kindle
eBooks by Sainsbury's
eBooks.com
Google Play
Hive
iBookstore
Kobo
Nook
Sony Reader Store
Waterstones
WH Smith
OK, so Sony is Dead and WH Smiths sell through Kobo (Although the Smiths site is easier to search on), Hive seems to have improved a lot since I first saw it.
It's not like they aren't trying to promote different places to buy ebooks.