New ebook store for the Swedish audience

thinkpad · 01-04-2013, 09:26 AM

A new ebook store has opened its doors in Sweden named Bokon.

Campaign prices range from:
29 SEK
49 SEK
99 SEK

Check out: http://bokon.se/
Some books are in epub others are in pdf.

mikaelalind · 01-04-2013, 03:45 PM

I haven't bought any books from Bokon yet, but I am really excited. I don't have a Kindle but I cheered when I spotted their Send to Kindle feature, because even though epub is predominant in Sweden, Kindle is cheap and a lot of people buy one.
Their search has its quirks ( you need to click on the author you want, to see all their titles), but I love their sorting abilities. And, I love their prices on the ebooks in English which is more or less US list prices. ( Their prices follows the publishers deals!)
And did I mention that you can pre-order books?

But what makes me really excited is the tab on the account page called Subscriptions

. And when I e-mailed them about it, the CEO himself replied and told me " It is an upcoming feature that I think our customers will like." I am dying to find out more.

thinkpad · 01-05-2013, 12:47 AM

I bought a Jan Guillou book. Haven't tried the send to Kindle feature but downloaded the kindlegen command-line utility to convert to the mobi-format. For me this tool handles the conversion from epub to mobi easier than Calibre. Calibre feels like a swiss army knife and behaves accordingly.

thinkpad · 04-01-2013, 04:36 PM

I finished Jan Guillous: Brobyggarna. That was a very interesting read. I liked it a lot, perhaps not as much as his Templar series but still a very good book.

01-04-2013, 09:26 AM	#1
thinkpad David Posts: 1,808 Karma: 8916183 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Norway Device: Kindle, E.Edge (sold), Irex Iliad (retired)	New ebook store for the Swedish audience A new ebook store has opened its doors in Sweden named Bokon. Campaign prices range from: 29 SEK 49 SEK 99 SEK Check out: http://bokon.se/ Some books are in epub others are in pdf.

01-04-2013, 03:45 PM	#2
mikaelalind Fanatic Posts: 590 Karma: 788068 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Sweden Device: Sony PRS 505, Cybook Odessey	I haven't bought any books from Bokon yet, but I am really excited. I don't have a Kindle but I cheered when I spotted their Send to Kindle feature, because even though epub is predominant in Sweden, Kindle is cheap and a lot of people buy one. Their search has its quirks ( you need to click on the author you want, to see all their titles), but I love their sorting abilities. And, I love their prices on the ebooks in English which is more or less US list prices. ( Their prices follows the publishers deals!) And did I mention that you can pre-order books? But what makes me really excited is the tab on the account page called Subscriptions . And when I e-mailed them about it, the CEO himself replied and told me " It is an upcoming feature that I think our customers will like." I am dying to find out more. Last edited by mikaelalind; 01-04-2013 at 03:52 PM.

01-05-2013, 12:47 AM	#3
thinkpad David Posts: 1,808 Karma: 8916183 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Norway Device: Kindle, E.Edge (sold), Irex Iliad (retired)	I bought a Jan Guillou book. Haven't tried the send to Kindle feature but downloaded the kindlegen command-line utility to convert to the mobi-format. For me this tool handles the conversion from epub to mobi easier than Calibre. Calibre feels like a swiss army knife and behaves accordingly. Last edited by thinkpad; 01-05-2013 at 12:49 AM.

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04-01-2013, 04:36 PM	#4
thinkpad David Posts: 1,808 Karma: 8916183 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Norway Device: Kindle, E.Edge (sold), Irex Iliad (retired)	I finished Jan Guillous: Brobyggarna. That was a very interesting read. I liked it a lot, perhaps not as much as his Templar series but still a very good book.

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