MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Overdrive will Stop Supplying Fictionwise on 30 January 2009

mgrunk · 01-10-2009, 12:35 AM

Out of 296 books, 19 are affected, but only 3 of those are unavailable - one those is a favorite of mine, The Night's Dawn Trilogy

I wish there were a better way to bulk download - I think I have books that I didn't get downloaded properly when I moved to my new platform, the Sony Reader.

I need to find a better way of keeping track. I had nearly everything downloaded and via Calibre all in nice categories, but my laptop crashed (unrecoverable), and I have to do it all over again.

I had another book that I couldn't download a few months ago - The Descent due to the DRM format I had purchased it in and the company that offered it pulling it. It's available at FW, but my original copy couldn't be downloaded again. FW credited me back the cost of the book.

I do think it illustrates the issue w/ DRM - although the whole stupid idea that you would tie a book to a device is beyond me.

01-10-2009, 12:35 AM	#103
mgrunk Zealot Posts: 130 Karma: 96 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: metro Atlanta, GA Device: Sony Reader PRS-505	Out of 296 books, 19 are affected, but only 3 of those are unavailable - one those is a favorite of mine, The Night's Dawn Trilogy I wish there were a better way to bulk download - I think I have books that I didn't get downloaded properly when I moved to my new platform, the Sony Reader. I need to find a better way of keeping track. I had nearly everything downloaded and via Calibre all in nice categories, but my laptop crashed (unrecoverable), and I have to do it all over again. I had another book that I couldn't download a few months ago - The Descent due to the DRM format I had purchased it in and the company that offered it pulling it. It's available at FW, but my original copy couldn't be downloaded again. FW credited me back the cost of the book. I do think it illustrates the issue w/ DRM - although the whole stupid idea that you would tie a book to a device is beyond me.