Category: eBook Stores

A growing list of web sites that sell eBooks. Pros and Cons...

An Interesting Truth at the Ebook Online Store

They answer to http://www.ebook-mega-store.com/ or the syntactically challenged: The Ebook Online Store – download ebooks for $10 and less. This is their reason for being: “More eBooks — more DISCOUNTS! Every eBook costs $10.00. The more you buy, the more discounts you earn. 2 Ebooks cost $19, 3 Ebooks cost $28, 4 Ebooks – $36, 5 Ebooks …

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CyberRead.com

I visited CyberRead.com to do a bit of pricing. Is it just me or is whole “cyber” thing getting old. When’s the last time you told someone you’d look for them in cyberspace. If you ever did. Anyway, not to get picky (I just don’t want to imagine cyberbooks!) but I strolled through the cyberstore looking …

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Diesel eBooks Visit

Diesel eBooks – Sounds like they’re selling truck manuals, but not so. They’ve got quite a collection over there: how-to, literature, mainstream and new releases. Google around a bit and you’ll see that the number of online eBook retailers is growing daily. Diesel’s just one of them. I did a price check. Now you’ll notice I keep going back to …

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Fictionwise eBooks: Free eBooks, eBooks for Palm, PocketPC, PC, & Mac

Fictionwise is on the money here offering various formats. Older titles at very affordable prices. In an attempt to maintain some sense of order I priced New Moon at Fictionwise. Regular Price: $10.99  Your Price including Buywise Club and Micropay Rebate is $8.41.  The Kindle Store Beats that at $6.04, but both beat the Sony …

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Sony eBook Store Pricing Expedition

The Sony Book Store I wanted to have a look around, price things, yah? I really liked their eReader so was very interested to know how much they were charging for eBooks. Guess what: still a little high. New Moon: The Twilight Saga, Book 2 by Stephenie Meyer eBook Publish Date: August 07, 2007 Filesize: …

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A Kindle Store Visit

I popped into Amazon.com knowing that industry leaders would be sharing the wealth right? We’ve been over the Kindle Wireless Reading Device here. So here’s a brief overview of  Kindle Books: I found some fairly sensible prices: New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer (Kindle Edition – Aug 8, 2007) – Kindle …

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Amazon.com’s Kindle Store

A pricing expedition to Amazon.com’s Kindle Store yielded interesting results. More soon…

Barnes and Noble’s eBook Store is Closed

I took it for granted that every modern bookseller would be moving into the eBook market by now. I visited Barnes and Noble to dig around their digital book bag and see how they’re pricing eBooks. (I know Amazon.com’s over there breathing heavily, but they’re so integrated with KINDLE it’s hard to mention one without …

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First Stop: ebooks.com

I was hoping to start some serious conversations about eBook pricing, so I began my research digging around a bit over at ebooks.com and focused a search on fantasy and scifi, thinking those readers would be most likely to dig reading eBooks in the first place.

Merry Christmas from eBookrumors.com!

In keeping with the season, I’m doing a virtual shop over the holidays. I’ll be checking out eBook specs at online eBook stores and posting my findings over the next few days. Feel free to add your own experiences. If you know any good places to check out, let me know. Remember, I’m looking for reasonably priced eBooks! …

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