Criser's post went on to suggest that there is actually something underhanded going on that actually robs the author and publisher, in that the vendors may actually be
buying digital editions of books one time and then taking it upon themselves to have those books printed at print - on - demand services, although that suspicion has not been confirmed.
Not exact matches
First, the price
of the
book will remain the same, regardless
of whether the consumer
buys the print or
digital edition.
This results in Adobe
Digital Editions not being able to transfer ownership
of the
books bought from Kobo, Smashwords, or any other company.
On occasion I have «burned» myself when
buying eBooks via Kobo, relying on their suggestions for
books I already read (I almost exclusively deal with Kobo because they are one
of the main players, have a big international presence, and unlike Amazon use ePub, so I can use Adobe
Digital Editions to read it on non-Kobo devices), causing me to
buy books that I ultimately found rather crappy (pardon my french).
If you want to
buy any
of these
books in print or the
digital edition, you can click on the purchase button and select your retailer.
This led to the creation
of Pottermore, the only place online where you can
buy the
digital editions of every Harry Potter
book ever written.
According to Google exec Chris Palma, Google
Editions will let you
buy digital copies
of books you find through Google
Book Search.
Even so, these same publishers who are so adamant about limiting our access to these e-books — and if you don't believe me,
buy an e-
book using Adobe
Digital Editions and try to read it on a machine that isn't tied to that specific Adobe account — are more than willing to charge us as much or more for the digital version than we'd pay for the paperback copy of th
Digital Editions and try to read it on a machine that isn't tied to that specific Adobe account — are more than willing to charge us as much or more for the
digital version than we'd pay for the paperback copy of th
digital version than we'd pay for the paperback copy
of the
book.
Some have existing epubs they have downloaded or
bought from other sites, and other people have problem removing
books from «current reading» list, some people are having to skip to the end
of the
book just to remove it, or goto adobe
digital editions and remove it from there.
With the advent
of online
book shopping, whether consumers choose to
buy print or
digital editions, the standard genres and categories that
book publishers and
book sellers once relied upon aren't sufficient.
You can actually
buy eBooks from Glose and you can see how many people are in the process
of reading the same
book and how many times people have commented within the entire
digital edition.
My daughter has
bought me the Ematic 7 ″ color for christmas, I've downloaded Adobe
Digital Editions & the Kobo app, synced all
books to the ereader however, when I try to open any
of the
books on the ereader, I get the error message, «file open fail» — Does anyone know how to fix this?
After all, whenever I ask someone why they're still
buying print
books when it's more convenient and cheaper to
buy digital editions (there are cheap e-book readers here in the Philippines), they tell me (and I didn't invent this) this: «I like the feel and smell
of paper.»