I poked around a bit; 12 of those stores are more-or-less local to me. (I may go visit one or two and ask them how it works.) It looks like their ebooks are the same price as the standard Google ebooks; I'm not seeing any advantage in going to the store instead of the main Google site. Has some disads; the store sites aren't always formatted well for dealing with the ebooks.
The bookstore seems to clearly indicate whether there's a download version or not (Google is blurry about this); all Google books, as far as anyone knows, have DRM.
Check this: Mercedes Lackey's Fortune's Fool at indie ebookstore: two listings, one that says $4.73 (SKU: MGIBFvCHHEQC), one that says $16.84 (Pp3NsFAKwq8C), both say not available when clicked on.
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I poked around a bit; 12 of those stores are more-or-less local to me. (I may go visit one or two and ask them how it works.) It looks like their ebooks are the same price as the standard Google ebooks; I'm not seeing any advantage in going to the store instead of the main Google site. Has some disads; the store sites aren't always formatted well for dealing with the ebooks.
The bookstore seems to clearly indicate whether there's a download version or not (Google is blurry about this); all Google books, as far as anyone knows, have DRM.
Check this:
Mercedes Lackey's Fortune's Fool at indie ebookstore: two listings, one that says $4.73 (SKU: MGIBFvCHHEQC), one that says $16.84 (Pp3NsFAKwq8C), both say not available when clicked on.
Same at Googlebookstore, single listing, not available for sale at all.
Google's ebookstore needs some serious work.