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Seriously, if a reseller doesn't want to make it convenient to buy ebooks, and price them reasonably, then they will be driven from th market. As for this nonsense with ereader and Fictionwise, I wonder if anyone is considering a class action lawsuit? They have definitely deprived buyers of products that they purchased. |
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Very cool- they do it just like the Darknet ebook sites- the ebook doesn't actually reside on the site, only a LINK to the ebook <G>. What will these guys think of next?
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Also, for the past year or so, every book I saw on ereader that I was interested in cost much less on Amazon (Kindle store); sometimes books that ereader charged $20 for were 9.99 at Amazon. |
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It has to do (IMHO) in this case with the business model that Fictionwise was running under. That business model goes totally against what the agency 5 will allow. I think once everyone is done with The club and the rebates that we will see these books come back to Fictionwise at silly ridiculous prices.
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Fictionwise SF Magazines update
Here's the reply I got from Analog - emphasis mine:
"Thank you for your email. We are aware that Fictionwise.com no longer offers Analog SF by subscription. While we license content to Fictionwise.com, we cannot control their business decisions. I would recommend that you bring your concern directly to them, which I understand you've already one. We appreciate your readership and I apologize for any inconvenience you've been caused." I didn't contact Asimov's but since they have the same owner I suspect the answer would be the same. Pity, since I'm not interested in their DRM offerings. There's still hope the individual issues will be available but a slim one at that. I wonder if charge back will work; I gues we'll see if they drop it altogether. |
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Why on earth can't B and N keep fictionwise open and have them focus on their multi-format library, which is considerable. Then they could keep all the things that made Fictionwise a good deal: the buy-wise club, micropay, coupons, etc. There is a big market for DRM free ebooks (Fictionwise even had the initiative to set up its own Kindle store); are the folks at B and N just too pig-headed to capitalize on it?
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Ebooks are just starting to hit mainstream awareness, and the Big 6 publishers have a lot invested in DRM. They don't want mainstream customers to go looking for ebooks and discover two types: bestsellers by authors they've heard of, laden with crippling software, and indie-published books by authors they don't know, that are easy to use on any device and can be (legitimately or not) shared with friends. They've got to be praying that Baen doesn't figure out how to sell ebooks at Amazon. (For a long time, Amazon wouldn't let publishers sell w/o DRM; that's possibly changing as more individual authors demand the right to sell their books DRM-free.) Barnes & Noble doesn't want a non-DRM, multi-device ebookstore (with a better search engine) competing with their our-software-only, our-devices-only ebookstore that ties into their physical bookstore. It looks very much like BN acquired Fictionwise in order to kill it. |
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I don't like DRM, but if there is going to be DRM, I would rather it be something like BN uses, which I can control than something like Adept or Kindle which is server based. |
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Occasionally, I think it'd be nice to get some of the DRM'd freebies available. But right now, I've got three new Smashwords books in my reader and one of my favorite fanfic authors just posted a story of 180,000 words, so I'm set for a while. When I run out of entertaining non-DRM'd content, I'll revisit the issue. |
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B & N has removed is removing more & more books from FW. Even the ones that were formerly multiformat. It will probably disappear altogether within a year if not sooner.
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They no longer carry Adobe PDF or Adobe ePub. Their catalog is exclusively Multiformat and eReader. |
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