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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Try Google Play (they seem to be making a new effort. They sent me an invite to be an affiliate, which is a program they had shut down. If they are looking for affiliates it could be an indication they are trying to drive traffic.) I haven't heard if they have opened up for indie authors again. I just looked for Ilona Andrews latest because I was blogging it (this is her self-published under a distributor) and it wasn't on Google Play, but it's on Amazon and Kobo.
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Google Play is still closed to self-published authors who did not have an active account at the time they shut everything down due to multiple spammers uploading copyrighted books. So there are a lot of authors who aren't listed there (either for the new releases or those who just self-publish their backlist).
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Originally Posted by milady133
Ouch! Another store closing on me. My problem is not about getting a backup of my books, I've been burnt enough times to get a backup the instant I buy my book, but what hurts me is going through all the trouble of finding another store. I don't want to buy my romance books in Kobo or Amazon, the instant you touch one of them your browser and email notifications get bloated with that genre (in fact with Kobo you don't need to really buy one of them, you'll get the notifications nevertheless) and I like reading a lot of books, not only romance.
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I don't really pay attention to what stores recommend me. With Kobo I tend to just ignore their emails. Amazon, I delete books from my recently browsed items. It doesn't cut the romance recs out completely, but it cuts down on them. Amazon tends to recommend whatever the last genre you looked at as the same thing happens if I look at Sci Fi, non-fiction, etc.
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Originally Posted by milady133
Besides, I really don't like not having options, I like buying from different bookstores so there's competition and they offer different experiences, ARE wishlist was almost as good as Amazon's, and Kobo has yet to implement it. They had a good series information, better than Amazon and Kobo, so it was easy to find the next in series or the first book in the serie when you found a new author.
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Competition is good for readers. It's a shame we've lost so many independent digital bookstores.
I get what you're saying about not wanting to share your browsing history/all books with other people though. Thankfully that is not an issue for me. I only share books with my mom. She (a) wouldn't care and (b) I load her tablet so she doesn't see all my Calibre libraries anyway.