eBookstore closes

by Avid Reader on November 10, 2006

in Avid Musings

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As I was get­ting ready to order Dark­fever by Karen Marie Mon­ing, I  imme­di­ately get a notice that Con­tentlink, Ran­dom House’s arm for dig­i­tal con­tent will be clos­ing at the end of the month and that I’d bet­ter down­load and archive it-quick. Oth­er­wise, lose it. Forever.

This sucks and I find myself highly annoyed. I emailed Jane and she got a response back from them pretty quick, stat­ing what we already know: yes, they’re clos­ing. The burn­ing ques­tion for me would be: why? There  were sev­eral ebooks that Con­tentlink had avail­able that wasn’t avail­able any­where else. In some instances, they were cheaper than Fictionwise. It was con­ve­nient to down­load books from them the day they were released and not a day later. I am so sorry to see them go. Oh, well. Some­body tell me that this book sucked and I won’t feel so bad about not get­ting it. Added note: I’ve never read Mon­ing before in my life but the book sounds really, really good.

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DATCATE July 13, 2007 at 10:57 am

I dis­cov­ered this great author, Stu­art Woods. His nov­els took me by sur­prise of how well writ­ten there are. His books are the great­est read. I have never had a novel that I have read that have me talk­ing back to the pages because the char­ac­ters are so alive, I found myself try­ing to “tell them”, that’s a “dumb mis­take”, “the bad guy will be ahead of you”. But most of all, his books have very good humor. I chuck­led a lot in places because the char­ac­ters’ con­ver­sa­tions were witty”. The books that I have read of Woods are: The Iron Orchid, the Blood Orchid, Two Dol­lar Bill — this one I haven’t fin­ished yet and I’m sorry to say I will be sad when I fin­ish it. I chuck­led a lot on this one! I think you will enjoy read­ing these books and will find them light and enter­tain­ing. Like to see you read the Two Dol­lar Bill and share your comments.

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Avid Reader November 16, 2006 at 5:20 pm

Glad to hear it, thanks :-) **going to look at my emails for this notice**

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Jane November 16, 2006 at 9:34 am

I got an email from them yes­ter­day say­ing it was clos­ing and no longer tak­ing orders. You must have prompted some action. Go Keishon.

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