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GtrsRGr8 · 01-10-2019, 10:12 PM

I don't know if the price comparison site Nextag did price comparisons on ebooks (I rather think not), but I'm sure that many of us, in addition to myself, have used it, Google Shopping, et al. to help us find the best buys on tablets, eReaders, media players, and other gizmos that we love to use to read, and otherwise get the most out of, ebooks.

Nextag, however, very well may be the most recent of websites, that we have come to know and love (for this MobileReader, the relationship has to have started very shortly after Nextag was started, way back in 1999), that has "bit the dust." If this is, indeed, the case, the demise of our friend has come in the last three or four days or so.

I went to Nextag's website just a little while ago, looking for a good deal on a particular laser printer that I've had my eye on for some time. No Nextag. Just the dirge that we so often have seen for our cyber loved ones who have departed:

This site can’t be reached nextag.com’s server IP address could not be found.
Try running Windows Network Diagnostics.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

Hard news about what has happened is difficult to come by. Check that--news of any kind about the fate of Nextag is hard to come by. Somehow, I ended up at this website which keeps tabs on just such news; ominously, it had precious little information that it had been able to gather; everything apparently is hush-hush for now.

We will get through this together. Keep a stiff upper lip.

01-10-2019, 10:12 PM	#234
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Nextag May Be No More. I don't know if the price comparison site Nextag did price comparisons on ebooks (I rather think not), but I'm sure that many of us, in addition to myself, have used it, Google Shopping, et al. to help us find the best buys on tablets, eReaders, media players, and other gizmos that we love to use to read, and otherwise get the most out of, ebooks. Nextag, however, very well may be the most recent of websites, that we have come to know and love (for this MobileReader, the relationship has to have started very shortly after Nextag was started, way back in 1999), that has "bit the dust." If this is, indeed, the case, the demise of our friend has come in the last three or four days or so. I went to Nextag's website just a little while ago, looking for a good deal on a particular laser printer that I've had my eye on for some time. No Nextag. Just the dirge that we so often have seen for our cyber loved ones who have departed: This site can’t be reached nextag.com’s server IP address could not be found. Try running Windows Network Diagnostics. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN Hard news about what has happened is difficult to come by. Check that--news of any kind about the fate of Nextag is hard to come by. Somehow, I ended up at this website which keeps tabs on just such news; ominously, it had precious little information that it had been able to gather; everything apparently is hush-hush for now. We will get through this together. Keep a stiff upper lip. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 01-10-2019 at 10:59 PM.