Comments on: Microsoft stops selling ebooks…again https://teleread.org/2019/04/02/microsoft-stops-selling-ebooks-again/ Blog on ebooks, publishing, libraries, tech, and related topics Thu, 02 Sep 2021 07:13:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: To DRM or not to DRM? - Author Help https://teleread.org/2019/04/02/microsoft-stops-selling-ebooks-again/#comment-144328 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 07:13:48 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167656#comment-144328 […] read their DRM’d books elsewhere. If you’re thinking that’s unlikely, note that Microsoft stopped selling ebooks as recently as 2019. Back in 2013, Kobo removed all self-published books from its catalogue in what […]

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]]> By: Sue Ellis https://teleread.org/2019/04/02/microsoft-stops-selling-ebooks-again/#comment-121269 Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:34:31 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167656#comment-121269 My problem was I had acquired a large .lit library as I read on my mobile phone and, as I average a book a day, the library became extensive, I had basically given up paper for Microsoft reader. I didn’t like what Kindle were doing at the time, preventing you using anything other than books purchased via their website as I couldn’t use my library and held on for a lo
My time before finally getting a Kobo. I now have one of each, a Kobo and a Kindle, but still miss the freedom of going out with a library on my phone.

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]]> By: Michael W. Perry, medical writer https://teleread.org/2019/04/02/microsoft-stops-selling-ebooks-again/#comment-110710 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:29:13 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167656#comment-110710 It dates me, but I’ve grown used to seeing Microsoft ebb and flow. I worked for them long ago when they had only 600 employees located in two buildings on opposite sides of a Bellevue freeway not their current Redmond metropolis. Later, I saw them grown so influential, that Bill Gates could hardly burp without triggering a series of breathless news stories. Now they matter so little in some areas that they can enter AND leave the ebook market with hardly anyone noticing. Heck, I recall them announcing their own cell phone, but for the life of me I don’t know if it’s still around or not.

The real problem with ebooks isn’t DRM or even whether the vendor you buy from will still be around next year. It’s that for many people they don’t seem permanent. Buying one is like staying overnight in a really cheap motel. You’re almost glad to be done with them.

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