Comments on: Oodles of commercial ePub books…but not from Waterstones! http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20090106/oodles-of-commercial-epub-books/ Information & Resources on the ePub eBook Standard Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:14:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mike Cook http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20090106/oodles-of-commercial-epub-books/comment-page-1/#comment-3401 Mike Cook Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:55:48 +0000 http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/?p=378#comment-3401 ...and Waterstones just have access to their books via a distributor... Anyhow munsey, I went back to BooksOnBoard and made another search, carefully checking that the only options I selected were Adobe ePub and Adobe ePub (DRM). Well...either I made a mistake on my first try or there was an error on the site - this time the total came to 4764. A shame for sure! I've now updated the epubbooks.com homepage to reflect this new value. …and Waterstones just have access to their books via a distributor…

Anyhow munsey, I went back to BooksOnBoard and made another search, carefully checking that the only options I selected were Adobe ePub and Adobe ePub (DRM).

Well…either I made a mistake on my first try or there was an error on the site – this time the total came to 4764.

A shame for sure!

I’ve now updated the epubbooks.com homepage to reflect this new value.

]]> By: I Read The Press Release http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20090106/oodles-of-commercial-epub-books/comment-page-1/#comment-3395 I Read The Press Release Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:52:25 +0000 http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/?p=378#comment-3395 I note you still have trouble counting. Actually, if you read the PR, you'll note that BooksonBoard is just accessing Fictionwise's Ereader store through the Stanza interface, and that the vast majority of titles are in fact secure Ereader books. You could probably tell this from the sentence in the PR: <I>Titles must be in the eReader eBook format and include, among 30,000+ others, titles by Gena Showalter, Nora Roberts, Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Stieg Larsson, Susan Mallery, and Harlequin’s One Click Buy January Blaze Bundle. Of course, nothing has done so much for epub as the strategy of over-promise, under-deliver, so maybe bald-face lies are the way to go... I note you still have trouble counting. Actually, if you read the PR, you’ll note that BooksonBoard is just accessing Fictionwise’s Ereader store through the Stanza interface, and that the vast majority of titles are in fact secure Ereader books.

You could probably tell this from the sentence in the PR:

Titles must be in the eReader eBook format and include, among 30,000+ others, titles by Gena Showalter, Nora Roberts, Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Stieg Larsson, Susan Mallery, and Harlequin’s One Click Buy January Blaze Bundle.

Of course, nothing has done so much for epub as the strategy of over-promise, under-deliver, so maybe bald-face lies are the way to go…

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