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Via Mobileread: Amazon applying for in-book ad patent for kindle.
Oh Amazon. The only reason I buy from them nowadays is the fact that I don't own a Kindle. Why are they so determined to drive me to ditching it for something else?
I mean, realistically, if they started putting ads in books, they would probably still have a sizeable chunk of the market, especially if they used that to lower their ebook prices even more. And I can't imagine that I would go so far as to stop buying ebooks if ad-infested versions were all that was available. However, I can definitely imagine just downloading the non-ad-infested version and rolling on. I don't buy books to read someone else's ad content, no matter how 'targeted' it may be.
Even more annoying is the fact that there exist methods RIGHT NOW in most semi-advanced ebook formats that would allow retailers like Amazon and so forth to cross-sell books by the same author or publisher or whatnot. Why the idea of the back pages promoting this book or that sequel haven't made the jump into current ebooks is beyond me.
Oh Amazon. The only reason I buy from them nowadays is the fact that I don't own a Kindle. Why are they so determined to drive me to ditching it for something else?
I mean, realistically, if they started putting ads in books, they would probably still have a sizeable chunk of the market, especially if they used that to lower their ebook prices even more. And I can't imagine that I would go so far as to stop buying ebooks if ad-infested versions were all that was available. However, I can definitely imagine just downloading the non-ad-infested version and rolling on. I don't buy books to read someone else's ad content, no matter how 'targeted' it may be.
Even more annoying is the fact that there exist methods RIGHT NOW in most semi-advanced ebook formats that would allow retailers like Amazon and so forth to cross-sell books by the same author or publisher or whatnot. Why the idea of the back pages promoting this book or that sequel haven't made the jump into current ebooks is beyond me.
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The largest no-DRM ebookstore is, I believe, Baen's webscriptions, which is *wonderful* (they truly grasp how ebooks work, and as a result, their ebook sales outmatch their non-US physical sales worldwide), but Baen is a sci-fi only publisher.
Fictionwise has a good selection of non-DRM'd books; they're the ones labeled "multiformat."
And smashwords.com's books aren't DRM'd. And they tend to have free samples, sometimes up to 50% of the book.
Small publishers with an ebook branch tend not to use DRM (because it's expensive, and they don't understand the tech), but they also tend to release everything in PDF.
(Hm, maybe I should put together a post about non-DRM ebookstores?)
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Yes! I would appreciate that a great deal. I love my Kindle, but I don't want to buy everything from Amazon.
I love Baen's webscriptions! I bought a fair number of the Liaden books there, despite having them all in hard copy anyway. My only regret is that there are no other science fiction publishers who work on the same model that they do.