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Originally Posted by shadowcat1017
I just did a quick search for Nora Roberts (as a very popular author with a large catalog for comparison), and Fictionwise, Books on Board, Diesel Books, and Mobipocket.com each only had 7 - 10 of her books available, but Amazon's Kindle store, Sony's reader store, and Barnes & Noble.com all seem to have pretty much her entire catalog of ebooks available. Is it all about the power of the big names (Amazon, Sony, B&N) vs. the little guys? Do we think that Fictionwise and the rest will ever recover? Since B&N.com seems not to be having any problems, and since they own Fictionwise now, it seems likely to me that Fictionwise will just be phased out.
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Thanks for this. I went onto B&N to look for the eBook version of a book that is due to release soon and found that it was listed for sale and was pleased to see it is available in eBook.
I signed up for it (but haven't bought yet).
Downloaded the app to my iPhone and tried to purchase an eBook from B&N but got stopped because it wanted an US address for purchasing. Grrr .... it's an eBook for goodness sakes. Don't they know that the term "electronic" automatically bypasses geography?
Also noticed that eBook purchases get delivered only 1 hour after purchase rather than immediately. You take my money immediately and you don't let me have what I bought immediately?
Hmmmm ... okay that was 2 rants there.