Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Oh silly Barnes and Noble. I hope Borders kicks your butt from here to next Tuesday.

They’re pacing themselves. Next week they’re going to offer Fall of the House of Usher and the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

*shakes head*

Ok, plus, I did download this ereader for my PC, and I only got TWO books plus the ereader manual.  And one of those books was “The Last of the Mohicans” and not “Pride and Prejudice”.

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And they don’t even give all 6 books to Mac users. I only got 4.

What, did Gates buy B&N, while I wasn’t looking?

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Lol. I saw that earlier, and that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking. What a ridiculous ploy. They probably could have coerced some current, reputable authors to provide a limited number of ebooks (like for the first several thousand) in exchange for wide exposure. Sheesh.

Sadly you don’t get the free books if you’re on a Mac.

You don’t get those books because you are on a Mac? Therre is an easy solytion to that - go to the Gutenberg site or to www.manybooks.net and download the books from there.

Hmmm. Period 86. I am sure there are at least 86 other sites where you can get those titles for free as well.

I downloaded this and it really works! This is great,

I think this “giveaway” is to promote their upcoming ereader, th Plastic Logic monstrosity, and yet another proprietary DRM’d format. Ugh.

call78: I call DRM 78 kinds of dumb

Yeeesh. Makes me glad they don’t have Barnes and Nobles in Canada.

Ehhh, I’ve never really gotten behind the e-book phenomenon yet. Matter of personal taste (I need to turn physical pages).

Anyhoo - Smart Bitches, I nominated you guys for a Kreativ Blogger Award on my blog! Thanks for being such an inspiration blog and sucking me into the romance genre!

Girle Books is a great place to get nicely formatted FREE versions of copyright free books (they have a nice selection that includes Austen, Heyer, Sayers, Orczy, Gaskell, Wharton, Burney, Edgeworth, Radcliffe, and more).

What. A. Bargain. :-)

I’ll say something nice about B&N: they let my writer’s group meet there after Borders kicked us out to have fake college and then close the store.

But that said, between this and paying for their book club and their very occasional, chintzy coupons…um, yeah, I wouldn’t be in B&N other than for book club meetings.

Huh. Pride and Prejudice (Without Zombies) and Sense and Sensibility (Sans Seamonsters). Gee, I wonder what they’re trying to capitalize on.

I got a notice of this too, which I promptly ignored.  I don’t need yet another program to read ebooks on my computer, and I’m not impressed by free books that I could get for free anyway.  Give me a break.  I’m perfectly happy with my eBookwise and getting ebooks from ARe or direct from the publishers.

If they’d try giving me a good coupon, like Borders, or beating everyone’s prices, like Amazon, they might actually get my business.

Well Sony gave me 100 free ebooks on a CD no downloading and free storage! :P

I agree that free ebooks are great and anytime I can find Mac compatibility, I’m in love.  But come on!  NO FREE EBOOK FOR THE MAC?!?!  That’s just wrong.

Also B&N brags about their brand spankin new ebook store “Choose from more than 700,000 titles, many at $9.99 each!”  WHAT?!  For 7.99 I can get a dead tree book.  I thought one of the ideas of ebooks was cheaper?