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Old 09-09-2010, 08:46 AM   #31
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If ePub is your thing, you'll be well served by the folks at Kobo.
They are less picky about who they sell to as well. I wanted to get the new book by Stephen Hawking ('The Grand Design'), but although there is a Kindle edition, Amazon won't sell it to me; it's geographically restricted for Europe.

I could buy the ePub at Kobo without a problem. A minute of DRM stripping and conversion later I was in business.

Which once again proves the stupidity of georestrictions...
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Old 09-09-2010, 09:55 AM   #32
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To give a context I am based in the UK and have no qualms about stripping DRM for my own use. I read mainly SFF and mostly well known authors. So with that in mind this is what I have found:

Amazon.co.uk: good selection and good price (usually the cheapest)
WH Smith: good selection and good price (had a half price offer on for a while which made them cheaper than Amazon).
Baen and WebScription: Brilliant attitude and price, unfortunately not a very wide selection. When I can, I buy from them just because I like their attitude to how ebooks should be sold.
The Book Depository: Nearly everything I want seems to be "out of stock"! Price tends to be high
Waterstones: good selection but expensive
Kobobooks: maybe I just can't get their search engine to work; if I search for Neal Asher I really don't want to see books by every other author in the world whose names starts with Neal! They seem to have almost none of the authors I want. When I do find something it is generally more expensive than Amazona nd WH Smiths.
Fictionwise: poor selection and a little expensive
Ebooks.com: poor selection and a little expensive
Books on Board: poor selection, good prices

I have all of these bookmarked and when looking to buy a book I scan each of them for the best price.
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Old 09-09-2010, 02:39 PM   #33
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Baen would be the obvious example. Pan-Macmillan in the UK also sell DRM-free books.
Baen sells ebooks through Amazon?

I was asking about Amazon's "publishers must use DRM" policy, which may not be true anymore.
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Old 09-09-2010, 03:25 PM   #34
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WH Smiths and the book depository are also good sites. They have a good selection at reasonable prices.

Waterstones have a good selection but their prices are very high.
about waterstones... you might have the surprise of your life trying to register, finally getting to "country" where you get a list unrolling and.... you find your country isn't even there!!!!!!
and you can't write it in. you can only "select".
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Old 09-09-2010, 03:26 PM   #35
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I'm getting a Sony Reader but I don't like their bookstore because their selection is bad and the website looks unattractive. What do you think is the best eBook store?
try this.... ebookprice.info
i bet you are pleasently suprised
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Old 09-09-2010, 04:02 PM   #36
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I was asking about Amazon's "publishers must use DRM" policy, which may not be true anymore.
Supposedly it's only true for pubs who upload through Mobipocket (which all the big publishers and some of the smaller ones do). I'm not even sure if there's another option for the big pubs to upload titles. There's no reason there couldn't be and if pubs wanted to do DRM free they could force Amazon's hand, but I don't think the pubs want to go DRM free.
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Old 09-09-2010, 04:08 PM   #37
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Supposedly it's only true for pubs who upload through Mobipocket (which all the big publishers and some of the smaller ones do). I'm not even sure if there's another option for the big pubs to upload titles. There's no reason there couldn't be and if pubs wanted to do DRM free they could force Amazon's hand, but I don't think the pubs want to go DRM free.
Baen, BeWrite (which can't sell at Amazon because they only do US publishers), O'Reilly, Double Dragon, and many other publishers don't put DRM on their books; some are deeply opposed to DRM and won't sell through any store that requires it.

Amazon now allows (didn't used to) individual authors to skip DRM; it's probably just a matter of time before publishers are offered the same right to control access to their ebooks.
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Old 09-10-2010, 07:21 AM   #38
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try this.... ebookprice.info
i bet you are pleasently suprised
I looked up a book I recently bought (Neal Asher's Shadow of the Scorpion) on this site and according to them the only site that sold the eBook was ebookshoppe.com it also listed printed books available from Blackwells and Amazon UK.

The ebookshoppe price was £7.59.

I bought the book from Amazon.co.uk and I checked and it is still available there for £4.14 which is what I paid for it. When I was buying it I also found it available on several other sites, which ebookprice.info claimed to be checking but didn't find. So I would suggest that their search engine is not actually very good.

I haven't tried any other books, this was the first and only book that I tried but as it got this wrong I don't think I would want to rely on this one.
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Old 09-10-2010, 12:45 PM   #39
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Kobobooks: maybe I just can't get their search engine to work; if I search for Neal Asher I really don't want to see books by every other author in the world whose names starts with Neal! They seem to have almost none of the authors I want. When I do find something it is generally more expensive than Amazona nd WH Smiths.
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put neil asher in double quotes when you search. "Neil Asher"
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Old 09-10-2010, 03:15 PM   #40
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put neil asher in double quotes when you search. "Neil Asher"
Thanks for that Foghat, that does work better. However it now does definitely seem that they do not have most of the authors that I would be after (whereas the other sites listed do)
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Now that I've found many sources for the ePub format, I won't criticize Sony for having a terrible store anymore. Also I found a software called Calibre that manages all my ePub books that I would recommend everyone to check out. This community have been great help.

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I'm getting a Sony Reader but I don't like their bookstore because their selection is bad and the website looks unattractive. What do you think is the best eBook store?
It's sure as hell not eBooks.com. Can't ownload my one and only purchase and they won't respond to emails.
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