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Most of it is ONLY in the public domain in the US, so unless the previous poster lives in a country which includes the "rule of the shorter term" in its copyright law, it won't be legally available to him.
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On Baen fantasy: Baen sells Glen Cook's Dread Empire series (published by Nightshade), not only much cheaper than Amazon, Kobo etc., but without their geographic restrictions either.
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#138 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Crapski. More to add to my TBR-list.
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#139 |
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Location: Currently I live in Malaysia
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The death of Books On Board is a very sad and lousy development for us, the consumers of ebooks. As many of you have pointed out, BoB offered a wonderful range of ebooks, at prices (mostly) that were competitive, and those wonderful discounts and "rewards".
I bought ebooks from them from the very beginning of my time as a user of ereaders, and never regretted dealing with them. They were always quick to respond to any complaints, problems or other cries for help I might send them as well. And as with the rapidly dieing out bricks and mortar bookshops as well, we are rapidly heading towards a sort of monopoly situation between Amazon, Google, and a few others, which has to be a bad thing as well. As with grocery stores, we need the ebook equivalent of Ma and Pa corner stores to keep the whole thing in balance. |
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You can also look at it that these wonderful discounts and "rewards" was the reason they did not survive...
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Location: Minnesota
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Another thing was that pretty much every marketing email I got from them was all romance and erotica. Now I don't have a problem with those genres and I know it's one of the top selling genres for ebooks, if not number one. I do know though that it made some folks perceive that that was all they sold and not even give them a thought when shopping. I'm sure it was multiple things. We have no idea if it was a well run company or not. |
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I know the romance and erotica focus was one reason why I stopped using them. I don't often read in those genres, and I found it hard to get past them to the books that interested me, so I eventually gave up.
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BoB has let their security certificate. expire.
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Is that a sandwich?
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I wonder if they tried selling the business before shutting down.
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Is this the wake then? BOB sure saved me some money. RIP BOB
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I only picked up a few free books from them. Never spent a dime there.
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