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All the better if you can read them for free (my local library has them in ebook format) or essentially "free". I guess I should tell my relative, who just started reading Twilight, about this deal. But I've never bought from Fictionwise before. How does it work? If you pay $64.96 for all 4 books in the Twilight series, do you get $64.96 in Micropay credits that can be used to buy other ebooks? I don't suppose you can receive the rebate amount immediately and apply it to this same transaction so that there's no charge for the purchase? |
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What I usually do if it's a 100% discount, and I do want all the books, I'll pay the full amount. Then as sales trough out the year arise I'll pick off some books I want it's typical for FW to put Fantasy, SF, Romance, Business, etc... on sale for 25%-30% off. When the sales are 30% or lower you can usually apply your micro-rebate cash. So effectively you are buying books at 75-80% off but it takes patience. =X= |
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You should think of 100% micropay rebate as "buy one get one free". It's just that you can choose when to get the free book. |
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OK, now I'm ready to bite. But I have to figure out how to strip the DRM and convert these from eReader to LRF. Sigh.
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![]() I'm still transitioning from paper books to ebooks, so am learning as I go. It seems that Fictionwise's micropay is analogous to rewards dollars at Books on Board. What happens when the micropay rebate is between 31% and 34%? |
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Yes, Micropay and rewards are similar incentive schemes.
as for the 31% to 34%, I don't think I've every seen that, but bear in mind that those are guidelines - check each offer - fictionwise could have a 50% rebate even on micropay transactions or a 20% rebate that only applied to CC transactions if they wanted. Fictionwise has various cumulative discounts/rebates. First there's club membership. You pay for membership (although they occasionally have 100% rebate on the membership fee) and then get 15% off all books. Next there's special book or author rebates. Usually between 10% and 35%, but sometimes 50% or 100%. Finally, there's the eReader 5% rebate. I don't like the eReader format, so I skip this. Note that each rebate get applied to the price after the previous rebate. So the 15% membership rebate plus a 20% rebate plus the 5% eReader rebate doesn't add up to 40% rebate, but 1-(0.85*0.8*0.95) = 35.4% |
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I won't pay over $10 for any eBook and usually not over $5 unless it's an author I already know I like, so would normally skip a series like this. However, with %100 rebate it's a little more attractive, as I know the micropay will eventually be used up on buying < $10 books that I'd have bought anyway.
Hopefully the rebates will crop up on the other book I wouldn't mind reading but refuse to pay more than $10 for. Still, I guess it's a good thing, otherwise I'd spend way too much on books and never find time to read them all, struggling as it is ![]() |
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Appreciate the excellent explanation from pdurrant!
Does this mean that the eReader format is non-strippable, non-convertible? |
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