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Originally Posted by Mivo
The only outlet I categorically don't buy e-books from is Amazon, but that is just me being stubborn.  |
Me too, but not really for any philosophical reasons; I dislike mobi/AZW3 and 1-ClickŪ. If they got rid of 1-ClickŪ, I'd buy from them occasionally and if they sold epubs, I'd probably buy from them almost exclusively.
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Originally Posted by cromag
** Kobo has given me more problems than any other vendor -- in terms of downloading the wrong book or failing to download anything. And their customer service has been miserable to deal with.
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This has been my experience, as well. In fact, I have a book that won't download right now that I've been putting off contacting them about because I don't want to deal with it.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sure, I agree. There's no reason to buy at B&N rather than Kobo or any other ePub store.
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I used to think that until I figured out that B&N will update downloads with new editions. B&N doesn't tell you that they've done so (you just have to download and check), but I think B&N, eBooks.com and Amazon are the only ones that update previously purchased books. I feel like NOOK Media is living on borrowed time, but until it disappears, it's still my favorite overall. In addition to updates, B&N's prices are competitive and I can download on any number of devices without worrying about ADE activations or a different DRM key for each device.
Kobo used to get most of my business because of the good coupons, but now they barely get any. I buy from Google very occasionally, but Google's epubs have almost as much added code as Kobo's do. I buy from eBooks.com if a book I want is the same price as other vendors, but it's prices are usually much higher. The only other vendor that regularly gets my business is Christianbook. While it's selection is somewhat narrow
, books from several publishers are available DRM-free and are clearly marked as such.