12-01-2011, 03:58 PM | #1 | |
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Google ebooks helps you support your local Books stores
ABA, BlueFire (Bluefire reader) productions, Google have teamed up to produce a product called IndieBound Reader™
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Links IndieBound Reader for Android List of 300+ Independent bookstores who are participating. . Looks like one of my favorite bookstores I use to haunt--when I read pBooks is on the list. Time to start visiting them again. =X= |
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12-01-2011, 05:55 PM | #2 |
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I don't know if this will work to help indie bookstores survive, but I earnestly hope it does work. If you truly care about the survival of indie bookstores, when omne concrete way to help is to use a Google Books ereader device or app and buy ebooks from your locasl independent store through Google.
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12-01-2011, 10:30 PM | #3 |
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While I like the idea I just wonder if they are using some other different form of DRM on the books.
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12-02-2011, 11:47 AM | #4 | |
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OK, I read down the list and I just gotta point out this one. http://www.moseisleybooks.com/gbook/help/about |
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12-03-2011, 04:29 PM | #5 |
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*sigh* I wish my local indie bookstore had gone the Google route when they started selling ebooks. I'd love to continue supporting them now that I've gone mostly digital, but they chose Blio as their ebook partner, and I'm not going to buy ebooks I can't read on my actual ereader.
Anyway, I hope that this, and other similar sorts of plans, work because indie stores are awesome and need to survive. |
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12-03-2011, 06:59 PM | #6 |
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I think a lot of posters here are right on. It is important to help out our local business. R.A. Salvatore did a book signing at the indie store I frequent. That is one thing I do miss about eBooks no physical pretense.... I guess they can do web chats but that's not the same.
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12-04-2011, 01:32 AM | #7 |
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This sounds great in principle. Unfortunately, the Google ebookstore is a slow-motion train wreck, filled with hopelessly garbled book descriptions. At least half my own books in the store have descriptions that belong with other peoples' books. And it's been that way for over a year, despite repeated attempts to have it fixed.
I wish something like this could be set up between indie bookstores and an ebookstore that actually worked! |
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