While I understand the debate around the Amazon ebook refund policy (which I support, btw, even though I’ve had my books returned and yes, “lost” those sales), I think cancelling pre-orders is perfectly reasonable. And, remember above? You can cancel your pre-order at any time. eBooks are covered under the pre-order price guarantee, which means if the price drops after you place your order, you will be charged the lower price on release date. They do not charge either your credit card or your gift card balance, if any, until the book is released. If the price drops between the time you order and the book’s release, too bad. They do not charge your credit card until the book is released, but they do deduct gift card balance, if any, immediately. I noticed the amount vanished from my gift card credit and suddenly had a sinking feeling, so I did some research. I cancelled my pre-order at Amazon (remember that) and pre-ordered from B&N. I decided to use some of my credits to order Skin Game, the new Harry Dresden book. Advantage: Neither Payments, especially for pre-orders Advantage: Neither Purchasing books from site or deviceĪgain, for me, basically neutral if all you’re looking at is the process of finding and downloading a book to your device. I know many people who browse generally prefer Amazon’s site, but for me, the website experience is equal. I rarely browse and most often use the search function, which seems to work equally well on either site. I prefer the Amazon site but find the B&N site to be perfectly usable. Since I had all those lovely credits, I decided to buy some books from B&N, which is where I remembered why I switched to Amazon and learned a new wrinkle. I’ve had periods of time where I bought more books from B&N (like during the period covered by the eBook settlement) and periods (like recently) when I’ve purchased more from Amazon. By the end, I think you’ll understand my headline. I haven’t seen many bloggers do a step by step comparison between the buying/reading experience on Kindle and Nook, so here it goes. He makes the point that its convenience, not DRM, and I completely agree, especially after my latest round with Nook books. Finally, I decided “what the heck,” especially after Chris’ excellent piece on why DRM isn’t the reason people are “locked in” to Kindle. I’ve been meaning to write this story for more than a week, but I got distracted by the whole Amazon/Hachette thing and hesitated to publish this because of the timing. (I’m quite willing to buy a future Nook device, assuming it’s good. It’s not intended as click-bait, and I’m not going on a rant about how evil Barnes and Noble is or how I’ll never buy anything from them again. In early 2015 it will be formally unveiled and likely this change to downloading content is likely a precursor to reading everything exclusively online.That’s a serious headline. It does not matter if you bought the e-books at full price or utilized a Barnes and Noble promo code to purchase it.īarnes and Noble is currently in the process of totally revising their website for purchasing content and also the way Nook books are presented. The elimination of downloading titles to your PC will mainly affect the “ power users” that tend to use 3rd party e-reading apps for their mobile devices or strip the DRM completely and bypass Nook security. In the meantime, read it on our free NOOK Reading Apps.” I also confirmed that graphic novels still have the download button, because they are currently incompatible with the Nook for Web HTML5 based e-reading app. There are some rare cases where select eBook titles still have the download button, but include the text “We’re working on making this title available on NOOK for Web. In the past, a download option would appear, but now this has been removed. This issue mainly affects people who use an internet web-browser and accesses their Nook Library. Ditto for people who use the official Nook app for Windows, Android or iOS. If you own a Nook e-reader or tablet, you will continue to enjoy purchasing and reading books right on your device. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.” “The ability to sideload NOOK purchased content has been discontinued. The Barnes and Noble customer care division has sent out a tweet, letting people know that this is their new policy and not a bug. They did this so users could not download purchased content locally on their PC and either strip it of the encryption or use a 3rd party reading app. Barnes and Noble has just removed the ability to download eBooks that you have bought from the online Nook Store.
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