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Old 05-04-2017, 04:55 PM   #405
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Originally Posted by Difflugia View Post
I pretty much ignored ebooks.com until Agency pricing took off. Their books are all publisher suggested price and I've only gotten the 20% off to work on a single book. When Agency books are on sale, though, they're typically on sale at ebooks.com, too. Their DRM is strictly ADE, their website makes sense, and they're happy having me download books to my PC without needing a special device, all of which seem too much to ask the others. Christianbook is a close second, but they only have Christian books.

I typically use eReaderIQ for the books that I want. I used to feel guilty because their revenue came from affiliate links, but Amazon killed eReaderIQ's affiliate account, so now it doesn't matter.
When ebooks.com sends out their periodic lists of book subjects whose ebooks are on sale for 20% off, they sure don't give the caveat that it's almost impossible to find an ebook there that qualifies.

Maybe ChristianBook can branch out into secular books one of these days. But, they never have shown any interest in it, that I know of, and I was buying from them long before they were ChristianBook, back in the Puritan and Reformed era. And I doubt that they have the budget for it, anyway. If they've got some spare cash lying around, I think (and hopefully they do, too) that they should use it to make some changes to their website to make it more user-friendly, if nothing else.

I knew that eReaderIQ used affiliate links, because I've always had to remember to truncate that part of an URL before posting the URL on MobileRead. I also was aware that Amazon put the kibosh on that, about a year ago, I guess. Do you object to any website using affiliate links to make revenue? I don't see what would be objectionable--those affiliates, in many if not most cases, provide a valuable service and they can't do what they do for free. And, for some, probably eReaderIQ included, that is/was their only source of revenue. And if you objected to the affiliate links, couldn't you have always truncated that part of the URL before navigating to the product page?
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