Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to Books@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoBookshop.org is now selling ebookswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down10
arrow-up137arrow-down1external-linkBookshop.org is now selling ebookswww.engadget.comAlas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to Books@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareMickey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 month agoThis sounded great until the part where you can only read the ebooks using their app and you can’t transfer to kobo/kindle. That is a dealbreaker for me unfortunately.
minus-squareLettucePrey@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoYup. They’re not selling eBooks, they’re leasing licenses to eBooks. Vastly different.
minus-squareAlas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-21 month ago🙁 Crap, didn’t see that part. EDIT: Also, another thing I hate about most sites that sell ebooks is that they’re rarely explicit about what their file formats are.
This sounded great until the part where you can only read the ebooks using their app and you can’t transfer to kobo/kindle. That is a dealbreaker for me unfortunately.
Yup. They’re not selling eBooks, they’re leasing licenses to eBooks. Vastly different.
🙁 Crap, didn’t see that part.
EDIT: Also, another thing I hate about most sites that sell ebooks is that they’re rarely explicit about what their file formats are.