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View Poll Results: How many shops have you bought ebooks from? | |||
None. (I use the library and/or Public Domain and/or freebies) | 4 | 3.51% | |
1 (Why bother with more than 1?) | 8 | 7.02% | |
2 (The best of both) | 7 | 6.14% | |
3-5 (Why stop at two?) | 37 | 32.46% | |
6-20 (I've been buying a long time) | 40 | 35.09% | |
20+ (A really long time) | 13 | 11.40% | |
The Blue one next to the Fish | 5 | 4.39% | |
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01-04-2020, 03:55 PM | #31 |
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Nope.
I had a BeBook in those days. (Philips Velo 500 and HP JORNADA 560 before that. The HP was sweeet! Then a DELL AXIM.) The BeBook (sort-of) supported everything, mobi, epub, rtf, html, and (especially important) lit. By the time stores stopped supporting lit, mobi had been DeDrm'ed, and converting both to epub was easy. (MsReader was practically epub 0.9) By the time I got my Sony they had pivoted to epub and it had been hacked to handle Kindle formats as well as epubs so the Sony store was non-competitive. I do have a couple disks full of lrfs I bought from Black Mask. In some parallel universe out there Sony trusted LRF and didn't drink the interoperability kool-aid and are still major players. Same universe where B&N stuck with FictionWise. Didn't save them, though. They blew it in every universe. |
01-04-2020, 03:56 PM | #32 |
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Oops. Voted for 3-5, then remembered a 6th one.
Kobo (most books) Diesel (bankrupt) Amazon Ebooks.com Angry Robot Feedbooks And a 7th... Delphi Classics 8th... BooksonBoard (bankrupt) Last edited by Katsunami; 01-04-2020 at 04:14 PM. |
01-04-2020, 04:10 PM | #33 |
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01-04-2020, 04:17 PM | #34 | |
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I'll update my answer if you update the 2018 ticker in your signature. |
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01-04-2020, 04:52 PM | #35 |
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01-04-2020, 08:10 PM | #36 |
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Let's see;
1) Kobo. Vast majority. 2) Amazon 3) Smashwords 4) Google Play (Well, I've "bought" four free books from them... :-P ) 5) Baen (only the free library as yet.) |
01-04-2020, 08:17 PM | #37 |
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01-04-2020, 08:24 PM | #38 |
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01-04-2020, 11:03 PM | #39 |
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01-04-2020, 11:12 PM | #40 |
Is that a sandwich?
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01-04-2020, 11:32 PM | #41 |
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01-04-2020, 11:41 PM | #42 |
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Thanks, but there was an 8th store as well
Maybe I'll remember a 9th? I'm already forgetting way too many things. Seems I'm already getting old before reaching middle age even I do have all of the free Baen CD's and (most of) the free Barnes and Noble Classics they gave away way back when, but I've never bought anything from either store. |
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01-05-2020, 02:50 AM | #44 |
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01-05-2020, 04:09 AM | #45 |
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OK, both updated. NB it's just the totals that get updated.
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