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View Poll Results: Do-Not-Buy Store?
Amazon 32 23.88%
Barnes and Noble 46 34.33%
Kobo 29 21.64%
Sony 56 41.79%
Smashwords 15 11.19%
Fictionwise 30 22.39%
Other (Specify in comments) 18 13.43%
iBooks 53 39.55%
Google Books 22 16.42%
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Old 08-17-2011, 02:47 PM   #46
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Because I'm a moron.

I forgot iBooks, too. We'll need either a moderator or a new poll.
We'll need a new poll. Once you've voted, you can't revote in a modified poll.
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Old 08-17-2011, 04:47 PM   #47
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We'll need a new poll. Once you've voted, you can't revote in a modified poll.
The options are there now, but you're right. I don't feel right redoing the poll, though -- someone else can make one, maybe?
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Old 08-17-2011, 04:56 PM   #48
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The options are there now, but you're right. I don't feel right redoing the poll, though -- someone else can make one, maybe?

I have the answer...ask a moderator to redo the poll in a new thread and move all the posts from here to there so we can revote without losing the messages. Then this one can be deleted.
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Old 08-17-2011, 05:07 PM   #49
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I sent the moderators a message by "reporting" your post and asking if they can/will do that for us. Thanks!
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Old 08-17-2011, 09:37 PM   #50
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I checked Kobo because I can't buy from them. The servers are in Canada, and to my bank, that qualifies as an "international transaction" (my Visa debit card is how I buy books). So unless I want to turn international access on for my bank account (which I really don't), Kobo is a no-buy for me. Which is a shame, since they seem to have decent prices and some good deals now and then.
They take paypal now if that makes it any easier.
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Old 08-17-2011, 10:39 PM   #51
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I never buy from Amazon because I do not approve of their monopolistic tendencies or their closed eco system.
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Hey! I just can't believe that no one has mentioned Diesel yet. I didn't have any problem with the one book I got there, but I read an awful lot of griping about them in this forum.
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Old 08-17-2011, 10:46 PM   #52
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Hey! I just can't believe that no one has mentioned Diesel yet.
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Old 08-18-2011, 10:39 AM   #53
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Hey, I refuse to buy from iBooks and I only "purchase" freebies from Kindle. I mostly purchase from B & N and Sony, then Smashwords and Fictionwise, etc. I load everything into Calibre and then onto my two Sonys and my Nook.
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Old 08-18-2011, 01:00 PM   #54
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I have books from every store on that list.

A good portion of them are/were freebies -- I like to have books for the apps, but I'm not necessarily going to spend money to put them there. I haven't given any money to iBooks, B&N or Google, and I try not to buy books from Amazon (I have spent money on only one so far -- a kids' book to try on my son during the recent "Big Sale". He hasn't looked at it yet and I actually regret buying it.)
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Old 08-18-2011, 04:13 PM   #55
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I've only bought from:

Amazon
B&N
Kobo
Smashwords

So I answered all the others .
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Old 08-23-2011, 01:15 AM   #56
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I will never buy from Sony because of the horrible customer service they gave me years ago on a laptop from them.

So no Sony products, no Sony ebooks for me.
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Old 08-24-2011, 01:40 AM   #57
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So no Sony products, no Sony ebooks for me.
Not to mention how the lost over a million customer's cc#'s to a hacker.

All the books I've bought this year were made of paper. Got plenty of free ones to store in my box of sparks though.
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Haven't had time to read all the thread, but just in case no-one's mentioned it - Copia.
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Not to mention how the lost over a million customer's cc#'s to a hacker.

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Not to mention the CD/rootkit fiasco!






But I still buy Sony stuff.
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