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Thanks, Lois. I'll be looking out for it in hope!
I'm an overseas reader too, and I find Baen really great for Lois' books. You just have to buy on their baen.com website, and they will email AND allow you to download a zipped file of the book in RTF, Epub, pdf, html and other formats.
What Dee said. I like Baen because their book files are all DRM free, so you can read them on whatever device you like. (I think Kobo are ahead of Amazon in market share in Canada, and maybe elsewhere in the world too. I don't know whether they've improved their position further since they bought out Sony's bookstore.)
Gosh, Gabi--I've been reading books in Mobi format since way before Amazon bought it and back in the days when I read these books in Mobi Reader on my Palm. While I almost always download books in ePub format, an Adobe product and proprietary in its own way, but then read them anywhere I want to, a format in and of itself is not really an endorsement of any company. B&N and Kobo are also proprietary and a pain to deal with. I do like my Kobo, but I also often download books to my iPhone 6+ to a variety of "proprietary" apps, and have to say that I view them all as "tools." I am kind of tired of hearing so many folks refer to Amazon as some enemy octopus--I started buying from them a couple of decades ago when they were a start up company and supplies of hard to find titles were difficult if you didn't live in a giant metropolis and here in a very rural town, They are only a giant because they started small and filled up a needed retail niche effectively--and weren't really responsible for driving out a lot of the independents that had already been destroyed by Walden and other players. I would have to drive at least a 150 mile round trip to get lots of goods and services that can arrive on my doorstep thanks to Amazon and other companies required to meet their service model.
All Lois's books are available on the Nook store (which is also where the Fictionwise back catalogue ended up). Baen ebooks provided all her books in most formats (inc mobi, epub & rtf) all DRM free. Note epub is an open standard though it does allow DRM, and can be copied to Kobo, Nook or iPad fairly eaist (especially if you use Calibre to manage your ebook library
Second using calibre!! Plus baen will maintain a record of the books you've bought so you can always download them later if your laptop crashes or you want to read it somewhere else.
Kobo is the only American ePub seller I know that sells worldwide – a point for thought when deciding if one should sell books through them.
But for Baen books their own shop mentioned above is the best place to go.
I now own a Kobo ereader, myself and found it fairly straightforward to transfer my previously purchased ebooks onto my ereader using Calibre. There was the inevitable nuisance of dealing with two programs to add books to my reader (I'd love to use just Calibre, but I can't seem to turn off the sync on Kobo's software) but once on, I'm finding it goes very well - even my Baen books in ePub format.
I will just note that I am a Kobo reader, too. A lot of people bought Kobo readers from Borders Bookstores before they incompetently managed themselves out of business. They are a Canadian company, so if you're not selling as big in Canada, adding Kobo would help.
I would also add that I'm a Kobo reader. It helps that they're the only eReader maker I'm aware of that makes a waterproof device--essential if you read in the bath out at the pool. Also, they honour Bayen's commitment to DRM free and only FROM their ebooks if required to do so by the publisher. For example, David Webers books on Kobo are all drm free.
Count me in as another Kobo eReader.
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Thanks, Lois. I'll be looking out for it in hope!
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I'm an overseas reader too, and I find Baen really great for Lois' books. You just have to buy on their baen.com website, and they will email AND allow you to download a zipped file of the book in RTF, Epub, pdf, html and other formats.
What Dee said. I like Baen because their book files are all DRM free, so you can read them on whatever device you like. (I think Kobo are ahead of Amazon in market share in Canada, and maybe elsewhere in the world too. I don't know whether they've improved their position further since they bought out Sony's bookstore.)
Gosh, Gabi--I've been reading books in Mobi format since way before Amazon bought it and back in the days when I read these books in Mobi Reader on my Palm. While I almost always download books in ePub format, an Adobe product and proprietary in its own way, but then read them anywhere I want to, a format in and of itself is not really an endorsement of any company. B&N and Kobo are also proprietary and a pain to deal with. I do like my Kobo, but I also often download books to my iPhone 6+ to a variety of "proprietary" apps, and have to say that I view them all as "tools." I am kind of tired of hearing so many folks refer to Amazon as some enemy octopus--I started buying from them a couple of decades ago when they were a start up company and supplies of hard to find titles were difficult if you didn't live in a giant metropolis and here in a very rural town, They are only a giant because they started small and filled up a needed retail niche effectively--and weren't really responsible for driving out a lot of the independents that had already been destroyed by Walden and other players. I would have to drive at least a 150 mile round trip to get lots of goods and services that can arrive on my doorstep thanks to Amazon and other companies required to meet their service model.
All Lois's books are available on the Nook store (which is also where the Fictionwise back catalogue ended up). Baen ebooks provided all her books in most formats (inc mobi, epub & rtf) all DRM free. Note epub is an open standard though it does allow DRM, and can be copied to Kobo, Nook or iPad fairly eaist (especially if you use Calibre to manage your ebook library
Second using calibre!! Plus baen will maintain a record of the books you've bought so you can always download them later if your laptop crashes or you want to read it somewhere else.
Kobo is the only American ePub seller I know that sells worldwide – a point for thought when deciding if one should sell books through them.But for Baen books their own shop mentioned above is the best place to go.
I now own a Kobo ereader, myself and found it fairly straightforward to transfer my previously purchased ebooks onto my ereader using Calibre. There was the inevitable nuisance of dealing with two programs to add books to my reader (I'd love to use just Calibre, but I can't seem to turn off the sync on Kobo's software) but once on, I'm finding it goes very well - even my Baen books in ePub format.
I will just note that I am a Kobo reader, too. A lot of people bought Kobo readers from Borders Bookstores before they incompetently managed themselves out of business. They are a Canadian company, so if you're not selling as big in Canada, adding Kobo would help.
I would also add that I'm a Kobo reader. It helps that they're the only eReader maker I'm aware of that makes a waterproof device--essential if you read in the bath out at the pool. Also, they honour Bayen's commitment to DRM free and only FROM their ebooks if required to do so by the publisher. For example, David Webers books on Kobo are all drm free.
Count me in as another Kobo eReader.
