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Shelfie is shutting down tomorrow, Jan 31 2017
Just a head's up that Shelfie is shutting down tomorrow on the 31st. If you have any ebooks from them, now's the time to back them up.
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A useless app. I never found one book I was looking for. And giving people one day to grab and hack all their drm books? Just another example of the dangers of drm and ecosystems.
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Never heard of them.
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As soon as you purchase an eBook, download it. Don't wait until the shop shuts to then complain about losing your eBooks. You have nobody to blame but yourself.
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I got digital versions of a few books and immediately downloaded them. I could never figure out how to even read the ones with DRM in any reader application using ADE so I had to do something else.
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Barnes & Noble with their Nook books used to permit it, but don't now. Your advice would have been great if I had heard it before they changed. Oh, and as far as I'm aware, B&N didn't give any advance notice, like Shelfie, and some other ebook companies did before going out of business. At B&N, you could download one day, and the next day you couldn't (I know that for a fact, because I had that happen to me). B&N and Walmart are two of a handful of companies that I hope to see experience a slow, agonizing death. The only tears that I shed will be tears of joy. ADDENDUM: Sears is a third company. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 01-31-2017 at 07:21 PM. |
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While it's not officially supported by B&N anymore I've been able to download everything I get there using their old Nook PC and Nook Study programs thankfully. I don't generally shop there (never have), but a few times they've sent me $5 promo credits and I'm not one to turn away free $$$ and I have a ton of Fictionwise books there as well. |
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I don't know who first brought up news about the change--it seems like I may have seen it reported on the News or Discussion thread. I'm pretty sure that people discussed it on a thread like the Freebies, Bargains and Resources thread, too. I know that I spewed quite a bit of vitriol about it somewhere in this E-book General forum--maybe more than once or twice. My memory, which certainly may be faulty, is that I found out the problem more or less simultaneously as Library Addict, or whoever, on this forum. I specifically remember making a rather long post, in this forum, about how a B&N customer service person gave me the runaround when I tried to get a straight answer about why I was no longer able to download the books in my library and whether or not the policy had changed, etc. Or, it might be that Library Addict or someone else mentioned it, and then I did some checking of my Nook library on my own. I just don't remember. And, frankly, I don't care who brought it up first. It doesn't matter one iota to me. I don't care who gets credit for the discovering the beginning of "that terrible B&N policy." And, again, I never meant to imply that I was the one who did. Quote:
I'm just crossing my fingers that nothing will cause the books to just disappear one of these days. I don't know if B&N could legally let that happen or not. But a bankruptcy would let you get by with a lot of stuff that you otherwise wouldn't be allowed to do. I didn't learn until maybe a year and a half ago that when we "buy" ebooks, we technically don't own them like we would buying a dead-tree book--we only buy a license or some such thing. It's all a crock if you ask me. |
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You can't download Kindle books from the Amazon website from the browser either. You have to do that from their Kindle app. I don't see many people whining about that, except when they get bitten by a new Kindle version with a new DRM implementation. Kobo lets you download your books from the browser, but it's quite a pain to download hundreds of books. |
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You can actually download books from Amazon within the browser. But you still need to have a Kindle or at least a device ID registered to this account.
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