Books removed from fictionwise?

[Angst]

Originally Posted by wayrad

I noticed last week that John Maddox Roberts' SPQR series was much cheaper ($9.99) and more titles were represented at B&N than at FW, which is weird considering B&N owns FW. They are published by St. Martin's Press. I don't know whether that's a subsidiary of an agency publisher, but when I went to recheck the FW price just now I found they've mysteriously disappeared. Still at B&N though - perhaps I'd better buy the remainig books quickly...

St. Martin's Press is a subsidiary of Macmillan.

Here's the full list:

Hachette (Grand Central, Little Brown, Faith Words, Windblown, Orbit, Center Street, Yen Press)

HarperCollins (Amistad, Avon, Caedmon, Ecco, Eos, Harper, ItBooks, Rayo, William Morrow)

Macmillan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, FSG, Hill & Wang, Faber & Faber, First Second, Henry Holt & Co., Metropolitan Books, Times Books, Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Picador, Quick and Dirty Tips, Scientific American, St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books, Thomas Dunne Books, Tor/Forge, Orb Books)

Penguin (Penguin, Ace, Alpha, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, Avery, Berkley, Dial, Dutton, Firebird, Frederick Warne, Gotham, Putnam, Grosset & Dunlap, HP, Hudson Street, Jove, NAL, Pamela Dorman Books, Perigree, Philomel, Plume, Portfolio, Prentice Hall, Price Stern Sloan, Puffin, Razorbill, Riverhead, Sentinel, Speak, Tarcher, Viking)

Simon & Schuster (Atria, Folger, Free Press, Gallery, Howard, Pocket, Scribner, Simon & Schuester, Threshold, Touchstone/Fireside)

[Graham]

Thanks for digging that up, Angst.

[Kosst Amojan]

Ah, that explains where most of my other books went...they were under Tor.

[ozron]

Well I was in the same situation as a previous poster - I hadn't gotten around to downloading all the Agatha Christie's from the previous sale to my Mac desktop yet. Of course they're not showing up now, so I can't download them now, and they may not re-appear.

However, very fortunately for me, I had downloaded them all to my iPhone using the eReader app. As my iPhone is jailbroken (for this very reason), using a Mac app I have (PhoneView) I am able to access the files directly on the iPhone. This allowed me to copy all of the 453 .pdb files (all the ebooks purchased from FictionWise and eReader) over to my Mac. While they are named obscurely e.g. 1A7D9A3B6DDC2162.pdb, simply importing them into Calibre provides the author and title information from the files meta data. Even better, they are all DRM-free! So I have all my ebooks and can easily convert them to any format I choose using Calibre, which has been a real godsend for me. How lucky is that!

[VictoriaP]

Originally Posted by ozron

However, very fortunately for me, I had downloaded them all to my iPhone using the eReader app. As my iPhone is jailbroken (for this very reason), using a Mac app I have (PhoneView) I am able to access the files directly on the iPhone.

FWIW--PhoneView doesn't require a jailbroken iPhone. I have the same program and have never bothered to jailbreak mine. The program's a great lifesaver though for pulling files off the iPhone; I've used it retrieve songs purchased through iTunes that have "vanished" off my Mac but were still on the phone.

[ATimson]

Originally Posted by VictoriaP

The program's a great lifesaver though for pulling files off the iPhone; I've used it retrieve songs purchased through iTunes that have "vanished" off my Mac but were still on the phone.

iTunes itself is supposed to be able to do that now.

[ozron]

Originally Posted by VictoriaP

FWIW--PhoneView doesn't require a jailbroken iPhone. I have the same program and have never bothered to jailbreak mine. The program's a great lifesaver though for pulling files off the iPhone; I've used it retrieve songs purchased through iTunes that have "vanished" off my Mac but were still on the phone.

That is correct. However you can only access the "root" of the iPhone filesystem, and hence the apps directories and the ebooks contained within the eReader app, on a jailbroken iphone.

On a normal iphone, you can only access the general area which Apple allows you to access. So for my circumstance, I could only have retrieved my FW ebooks from a JB iPhone.

[kfarmer]

That explains where all the Star Trek books went. *sigh*

[langshipley]

Does anyone know when the publishers will be putting their books back onto Fictionwise?

[pdurrant]

No. Possibly never*.

Originally Posted by langshipley

Does anyone know when the publishers will be putting their books back onto Fictionwise?

* OK, probably not really never. But quite possibly not for several months and perhaps not even for years.

[langshipley]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

OK, probably not really never. But quite possibly not for several months and perhaps not even for years.

That's just AWFUL. There are so many of my favorite authors that I read only in eBook format and now I have to switch back to print, which I do not like or want to do.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by langshipley

That's just AWFUL. There are so many of my favorite authors that I read only in eBook format and now I have to switch back to print, which I do not like or want to do.

You could buy from other ebook stores. As you have an iPhone, you could get the Kindle for iPhone app, and buy from Amazon. Books bought that way are easy to 'liberate' so that you can move them to any future device.

[wayrad]

Originally Posted by Angst

St. Martin's Press is a subsidiary of Macmillan.

Here's the full list:

Hachette (Grand Central, Little Brown, Faith Words, Windblown, Orbit, Center Street, Yen Press)

HarperCollins (Amistad, Avon, Caedmon, Ecco, Eos, Harper, ItBooks, Rayo, William Morrow)

Macmillan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, FSG, Hill & Wang, Faber & Faber, First Second, Henry Holt & Co., Metropolitan Books, Times Books, Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Picador, Quick and Dirty Tips, Scientific American, St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books, Thomas Dunne Books, Tor/Forge, Orb Books)

Penguin (Penguin, Ace, Alpha, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, Avery, Berkley, Dial, Dutton, Firebird, Frederick Warne, Gotham, Putnam, Grosset & Dunlap, HP, Hudson Street, Jove, NAL, Pamela Dorman Books, Perigree, Philomel, Plume, Portfolio, Prentice Hall, Price Stern Sloan, Puffin, Razorbill, Riverhead, Sentinel, Speak, Tarcher, Viking)

Simon & Schuster (Atria, Folger, Free Press, Gallery, Howard, Pocket, Scribner, Simon & Schuester, Threshold, Touchstone/Fireside)

Great list, thanks! I just copied it into a memo on my Zod so I'll have it handy in the days to come. (Geez, it sounds like I'm preparing for the end times or something. I wonder.)

[langshipley]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

You could buy from other ebook stores. As you have an iPhone, you could get the Kindle for iPhone app, and buy from Amazon. Books bought that way are easy to 'liberate' so that you can move them to any future device.

Thanks. I hadn't thought of that. It is wonderful to know. I'll keep Kindle in mind. Do you know - if I buy a Kindle book from Amazon, can I deliver it to more than 1 iPhone?

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by langshipley

Thanks. I hadn't thought of that. It is wonderful to know. I'll keep Kindle in mind. Do you know - if I buy a Kindle book from Amazon, can I deliver it to more than 1 iPhone?

You can put move than one "device" on your account. I'm not sure how many, 3 or 4, I believe. I presume those Iphones aren't connected to other accounts.