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Old 06-25-2016, 03:02 AM   #1
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Ebook stores seem to have distressingly short lifetimes!

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Old 06-25-2016, 03:13 AM   #2
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I find that I can no longer download any of my books from BooksOnBoard.
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Old 06-25-2016, 05:14 AM   #3
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Didn't they close down years ago? I use to buy my agency books from them. It would have been a nice tidy settlement amount from Apple had they still been around.

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Old 06-25-2016, 08:50 AM   #4
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Didn't they close down years ago? I use to buy my agency books from them. It would have been a nice tidy settlement amount from Apple had they still been around.

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They stopped selling ebooks back in 2013. But their website was still up and ebooks could be downloaded.

Now their website is still up, but nothing can be downloaded anymore.

They never did a proper "we're closing" press release. They just slowly faded away.
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Old 06-25-2016, 09:18 AM   #5
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Old 06-25-2016, 01:12 PM   #6
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They had their lawsuit dismissed in January but filed an appeal in February. Perhaps, the owner was hoping to have a settlement by now to keep the website functioning.
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Old 06-25-2016, 06:10 PM   #7
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That's pretty much the norm is most businesses. Most only last a short while.
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Old 06-26-2016, 11:29 AM   #8
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Another reason to deDrm all your paid for ebooks before they vanish into the rther.
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Old 06-26-2016, 05:03 PM   #9
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Another reason to deDrm all your paid for ebooks before they vanish into the rther.
yep. It's very rare for me to buy digital media that I can't deDRM.
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Old 06-27-2016, 11:52 AM   #10
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They stopped selling ebooks back in 2013. But their website was still up and ebooks could be downloaded.

Now their website is still up, but nothing can be downloaded anymore.

They never did a proper "we're closing" press release. They just slowly faded away.
When they changed to that account access only page, I seem to remember emails from them saying they were closing and they would keep access to the ebooks for a limited time only, I'm surprised the website is still there TBH.

That wiki link misses at least Diesel & WH Smiths closing, so I suspect there are a number of others as well.
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Old 06-27-2016, 12:47 PM   #11
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That wiki link misses at least Diesel & WH Smiths closing, so I suspect there are a number of others as well.
It's missing at least the Rocket ebook and embiid closings.

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Old 06-27-2016, 01:34 PM   #12
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There was a website I used to purchase .pdb books for my palm that also shut down quite some time ago. I can't remember the website name but it didn't appear to be listed at the wiki link site.
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Old 06-27-2016, 02:20 PM   #13
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There was a website I used to purchase .pdb books for my palm that also shut down quite some time ago. I can't remember the website name but it didn't appear to be listed at the wiki link site.
Might it have been Peanut Press?
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Old 06-27-2016, 03:06 PM   #14
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yep. It's very rare for me to buy digital media that I can't deDRM.
It is the only reason I don't buy from the iBook store. At least Kobo will price match with them...
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It is the only reason I don't buy from the iBook store. At least Kobo will price match with them...
You can deDRM a book purchased from the iBook store.
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