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Originally Posted by HarryT
What do you mean? You aren't "tied into one format" - virtually all FW's books are available in multiple formats.
You have to choose one format when you DO buy (unless it's a "multi-format" book), but that's true at ALL eBook stores.
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To clarify, Harry - What I mean when I say I'm tied into one format at Fictionwise; I put in my "preference" because it asked me to when I registered. I didn't know exactly which format I was going to need at the time, because at the time I had no idea which reader I was getting; I just wanted to see how the store worked. Thereafter, every time I put something in my cart that was not my "preferred" format, I get a big red warning box at the top of my screen warning me that I have added something that's not my "preferred" format, and offering to correct this for me. While I then can close that dialogue box, it will still usually "correct" it for me in the cart whether I tell it to or not. While I can see that this might cut down on accidentally buying the wrong format in an absentminded moment, it came across to me as being rather paternalistic...and while that's great for fathers, it's not a quality I appreciate in a bookstore. Now - maybe I'm being stubborn and unreasonable here, but that's my opinion of the matter.
Yes, I also realize that I can go in and change my preferences...but why should I have to do that every time I want to order a different format? And the format I'm ordering depends both on what the book is available in, and where I'm going to read it. The way I understand it, the EZ Reader I'm getting
at the moment supports both DRM Mobi (until the firmware upgrade) and .lit (if I format switch it). If a book isn't available in one, I'll order it in the other. And if it isn't available for a format my Reader will read, I'll get it in a format readable on my PC. There are some books I just won't wait for.
As I said, maybe I'm highly unusual.