Amazon announces $3 ebooks: if you bought the dead tree edition from them

[thewayne]

About bloody time. I hope Barnes & Noble follows suite. I prefer, for a variety of reasons, B&N ebooks and their Nook over Amazon's format and the Kindles. My problem is that I have an old Nook tablet, theoretically I can root it and it will run a version of Android, but I don't know if it'll be a late enough version to access Google's Play

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[droewyn]

As I recall, right now it's only for Harper Collins books, but if it's successful hopefully the rest of the Big Six will jump on board.

I wish B&N would work on a lot of things. I wind up buying ebooks more from Amazon lately, because their regular prices tend to be significantly cheaper, and they have four daily deals -- three genre specific -- instead of one that's usually Oprah Book Club-by. Free Fridays is nice in theory, but in practice the ratio of "wow, that was really great! Let's see what else this author has done" to "I want those six hours of my life back" is depressingly low.

I want coupons and the discount membership to apply to ebooks, dammit.

[thewayne]

I fear B&N won't be around in a decade, we'll see what happens. I prefer buying books at brick & mortar stores, but driving for two hours to get to a good technical book store is tough. And old/out of print is pretty much impossible to get through B&N, so it looks like they have a rough future ahead of them.

There was a recent article that Staples and Radio Shack just kicked out Amazon's lockers from their stores, they realized that they were benefiting a competitor without seeing any real gain for themselves.

And I LOVE you icon! Gotta show it to my wife!

[silveradept]

There is a version of Android up to 4.2 for all the rootable tablets. Probably soon a 4.3 version, once everything gets sorted out. Stupidly enough, they often have issues with the nook app.

[thewayne]

It would not surprise me if they've lightly sabotaged it. My wife uses the Kindle app on her Mac and iPad, and seems to work well. Myself, I think I'd either get an ePub version or use a DRM stripper on something my wife buys and convert it.

But I doubt I would do that, there's too much good free material in non-Kindle formats, I could read only Project Gutenberg for years and be happy.