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Originally Posted by Rbneader
Samhain Publishing is making it stupidly hard to buy a book from them.
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Never had a problem buying a book from them or found it at all hard, but I will say their old website had a better UI (although dated) IMO. Maybe I've just gotten used to it though. It would be nice if the payment options were listed in the FAQ with everything else.
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I get an email every week from Simon and S. and they are now trying to drive traffic to their own site (but also include buy links for all the other major retailers). Where were they 5 years ago? 10?
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Years ago the S&S webstore was one of the best places to buy their books. They were generally cheaper than anyplace else. Later things changed, around the time of Agency. Another good thing they did that other big pubs didn't was when the big switch to ePub took place (after Lit, Mobi, etc. died) they converted folks older format books over to ePub instead of just killing their store and folks losing access to everything (like HarperCollins & Penguin did). I still have access to my purchases from 2009. For the big pubs direct sales have always been an afterthought though. In the past they haven't generally seen individual consumers as their customers (that's what booksellers are for
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