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aceflor · 09-20-2009, 05:01 AM

I am too convinced Fictionwise politics changed as soon as B&N acquired them.

My membership ends in March, and not only will I not renew it, but I made sure since Friday to bring my Micropay account down to zero. That's it for me, really, I am done with Fictionwise. I hated their new NYBestsellers pricing anyway, it is really a scam. I am not sure, considering B&N started selling ebooks too (only in the US, but apparently the other markets are not interesting for american booksellers), that it is not a way of integrating Fictionwise as quickly as possible aka letting it die and transferring all existing US memberships to B&N. Other memberships are probably very valuable too, but too complicated in the handling due to the editor's restrictions, and B&N does not give the impression of wanting the fuss. So I'll oblige gracefully and won't give them my $.

For my part, I'll stick to Books on Board and Kindle, at least amazon is clear regarding its pricing (it's almost always 9.99 or less).

09-20-2009, 05:01 AM	#333
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	I am too convinced Fictionwise politics changed as soon as B&N acquired them. My membership ends in March, and not only will I not renew it, but I made sure since Friday to bring my Micropay account down to zero. That's it for me, really, I am done with Fictionwise. I hated their new NYBestsellers pricing anyway, it is really a scam. I am not sure, considering B&N started selling ebooks too (only in the US, but apparently the other markets are not interesting for american booksellers), that it is not a way of integrating Fictionwise as quickly as possible aka letting it die and transferring all existing US memberships to B&N. Other memberships are probably very valuable too, but too complicated in the handling due to the editor's restrictions, and B&N does not give the impression of wanting the fuss. So I'll oblige gracefully and won't give them my $. For my part, I'll stick to Books on Board and Kindle, at least amazon is clear regarding its pricing (it's almost always 9.99 or less).