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Originally Posted by JSWolf
This is from the Bookshout forum.
In plain English, don't bother with Bookshout as you won't get an eBook usable outside of their specialized apps.
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Exactly. This is one reason why I laughed at the article I linked to above trumpeting a way for Amazon customers to escapte the Amazon walled garden. To use a new analogy and to borrow (and mangle) a quote from a friend in another context, to move from Amazon to Bookshout would be like going from Holiday Camp to Maximum Security. Bookshout is focussed on Publishers to the detriment of customers.
I will go further and say that the only way sites like this will have a glimmer of hope is for Hachette and the other BWM to withdraw their books from Amazon or at least make them significantly more expensive on Amazon. So, if you want to read the latest John Grisham or Stephen King the only way to do so will be via this type of publisher-centric site. Or even better yet, go back to buying paper books! I do suspect that the BWM are considering some such strategy, but do not rate its prospects of success highly for many reasons.