Sony PRS-500 going back to the service center after upgrade

[EatingPie]

Originally Posted by Akumag2

I checked my account and all the star trek books I have purchased are there and they have the download now button not available soon.

So I searched some that I had already purchased but they do not show up in the store. And at least 2 that I know of were already in ePub format.

I contacted sony via email and got a reply back that if books are not available I may have to wait until they have a contract with the publisher, I wrote back saying I had already purchased a tonne and got another reply back with, "we may not be able to supply a specific date that we can acquire a license from the publisher Simon & Schuster". Maybe the nolonger have the right to sell them, that would suck and mean I'd need to get my books elsewhere, Since I got my 500 I have only purchased books from the sony software and use that to sync between my 500 & my wife's 505.

I am not sure if you said, but do you still have the books in LRF (BBeb) format? If so, they will still work just fine with all Sony Readers.

My problem was simply one of Windows hatred. I use a Mac with Windows in BootCamp/Parallels for the Sony Store. The downloaded books were stored on the Win partition, which I never back up. I reformatted it at some point, and afterward sent my Reader in without recovering the books -- having forgotten the reformat. Poof!

It's actually a great thing that Sony offers the re-download. The only things they did wrong in the transition were (a) not keep LRFs of non-ePUB books, and (b) still use DRM (which obviously isn't going to change for a few years, and wouldn't have helped me recover my lost books anyway!).

-Pie

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Akumag2

Wish the $10 coupon didnt expire so soon all the books I really want are not out until the end of the year, but hey I got a freebie of something I probably would not have got round to buying if my Star Trek books were out (BTW why have all the Star Trek books vanished from the book store, even the ones I already purchased seem to be nolonger available?).

The $10 coupon I tried to put in did not work and I called Sony and the person on the phone helped get it sorted. I ended up being given a different code and the code I put in doesn't expire. So I am good.

As for the Star Trek eBooks, it's due to the new Agency nonsense.