Update, Monday October 11, 2010: the missing “download ePub” buttons have appeared! And a bit about Gift Cards. See in post.
I raked Borders over the coals in a prior post: Borders FAILs eCommerce 101!
And because I am mean, I follow-up on things.
Well, they shocked me! After screaming tweeting them again about this earlier in the week, I find out today they’ve changed it!
See the proof after the break.
Filed under Bookstores
This must have changed very recently, but I noticed it today.
A screensnap from July 19, 2010:
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A screensnap from today, October 10, 2010:
Click = big
What accounted for that change? Were there people who thought they were ordering printed books and then complained when they didn’t appear via their printer?!
Filed under Amazon Kindle
Why e-books are a weight off my mind
What all this suggests is that, with consumer technology at least, convenience trumps everything.
Boldfaced emphasis added by me.
Look, I know he’s a Brit, so I cut him some slack for the silly “What all this suggests …” equivocation.
But I cut zero slack to print publishers here in America.
Filed under Digital Overthrow, eBooks: General
A Comment at this post: How driving a car into Manhattan costs $160
Damn, I love it when knowledgeable people with attitude slap down a libertarian using actual facts and good examples. It’s like antibodies protecting the body-politic. Thanks guys!
Thank you, ideological antibodies!
Filed under Pottersville
Say hello to mechanically separated chicken.
I had absolutely no idea of this. Not a clue. Maybe I’m the last one to know?
Please do not tell me how cat food is made. No, do not.
Filed under Pottersville
I’m almost giddy with excitement this morning over the Bluefire Reader. Am going to do a quickie post. Thanx @mikecane for heads up.
Jane L
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All you iPhone/iTouch readers have to get Bluefire Rdr. U can now read ENCRYPTED DRM’s on ur iOS devices. Am doing postJane L
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That’s Jane Litte, She Who Must Be Obeyed from the influential Dear Author site.
I tweeted her the news of the Bluefire Reader for iOS and she jumped on it and in less than a half hour, that was her reaction.
Compliant with “classic” Adobe DRM, iOS devices will now be able to read eBooks from public libraries and every ePub eBookstore except Barnes & Noble (which uses a proprietary variant; but that doesn’t much matter on iOS devices, since there is a B&N Nook app). See update.
As usual, I have to sit this out due to kittens.
Update: And here is Jane’s post.
Filed under eBooks: General, iOS
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