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And we will still have Baen.
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And (in the UK) Sainsbury, although I do wonder for how much longer.
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Waterstones is just rebranded OverDrive. But on the upside, it's cheaper to run and you make it sound like Waterstones does a good job.
Also, that brings me back to Kobo. I seriously doubt Rakuten would kill Kobo so soon after buying OverDrive. One is being used to fund and justify the other, probably. |
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Small retailers in France, they won't propose the English catalog. I forgot google though -> all the catalog, and the right format. |
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They are very weak on Indies. But they make up for it with pirates and scams. ![]() B&N has in the past been pretty good for (non-romance) Indies. Last edited by fjtorres; 07-09-2015 at 09:42 AM. |
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And yet, if you search B&N for free ebooks, and sort them newest to oldest, you will see quite a few that aren't in English. Perhaps they will sell some Spanish language ebooks in the US, but I don't think there will be large markets for German, French, Italian, Dutch, etc. Clearly someone thought it a good idea to market these freebies through the NOOK store. I wonder if they know something that B&N doesn't.
(Of course, the fact that I couldn't filter the search by language is just another symptom of B&N's website woes.) |
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Nook has a robust spanish language ebook section...
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/nook...panol/_/N-1p5v Pretty much a necessity as there are more Spanish speakers in the US than in Spain. (54m vs 47M) And those are just the ones the census counts. Nook did all the right things needed to succeed... ...they just did them poorly. |
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And I don't care that much about indies. I can get them on other websites. It's all about access to books from the mainstream authors / publishers. |
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