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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I don't know why Fictionwise, Sony, and Books on Board closed (it was a little before my ebook days). If it was due to bankruptcy, I could be more forgiving, but if it was indifference to their loyal customers, that is another.
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Fictionwise was such a great store to shop at. They had a great club you could join for discounts. When you bought a book on the NYT Best Sellers List you would get 100% of the price back to spend at their store, so more books! Other books were 15% off. Plus when you had large orders, you'd get a percentage back in micropay to buy more books with. Plus you could combine offers there. Yes I went broke saving money, but I LOVED them.
Then Agency pricing happened. No more club. No more Fictionwise.
Sony closed due to a multitude of factors.
Books on Board took a bit longer, but they were also a victim of Agency pricing.
Instead of leveling the playing field as was supposedly the intent, Agency pricing took away independent stores ability to discount and/or have special sales (like Buy 10-get-1-free or the Buywise club). So customers had no reason to seek out or use these stores where admittedly there were a few hoops to jump through. Especially when Amazon offered such seamless integration between their store and the Kindle. People who were tech-challenged or just didn't want to deal with extra steps also had no reason not to shop at Amazon.
I prefer ePub, so don't shop at Amazon for books much. But it's disheartening when store after store after store closes.
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Does this mean that I just traded one library (at WTS Books) for another one (at Amazon) and that, ultimately, I've got the same problem as I had at the beginning? Or are all of my ebooks from WTS Books now securely on my hard drive?
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The books should be on your hard drive (in the unzipped folder). You have the mobi file type associated with the Kindle 4 PC app so that's what they opened in. (File types usually have a default program associated with them).
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I think that it is extremely unlikely that Amazon would make my library disappear, though, where I didn't (well, I don't now) with WTS Books.
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Maybe so, but there's already been one instance where the Kindle 4 PC program changed and it wouldn't open older books, so all of one's purchases had to be redownloaded.