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google search "book_name epub"

by londons_explore 2y ago

sandeep1998 2y ago
same
throawayonthe 2y ago
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zuppy 2y ago
... but this does not replicate the kindle one-stop store experience. and looking on the kobo store doesn't help either, i wanted the experience for someone who actually migrated from kindle. i may find the books i'm looking for now, but what are the struggles for people who actually used it? do they come later than kindle, are they using multiple shops, etc. edit; yes, i know about the pirating options. i'm not talking about those.
- goosedragons 2y ago
  Kobo in my experience has all the books from big publishers, the publishers that publish paper books too. What they do not have is the stuff from Kindle Direct Publishing. This is stuff people have self-published on Kindle, I think Amazon requires exclusivity when you do that too? In my opinion this is actually more of a blessing than a curse since I consider 99% of that garbage I don't want to sift through. Sometimes multiple store headaches are still a necessity depending on region. Even on Amazon.
  - joseda-hg 2y ago
    IIRC they give you a better revenue split or something of that nature if you only publish there
a-french-anon 2y ago
`filetype:epub book_name` should be tried first, in my opinion.
nolok 2y ago
This is rather terrible for supporting authors though. I read a lot of scifi from small authors who self publish on kindle direct publishing, and I would rather they get my money for their work. And yes I can pay then find the epub (and not all are available, due to small author), but the experience is then much worse.
- jack_pp 2y ago
  Contact the author, send direct to paypal. this way you get freedom, they get more money
- dsign 2y ago
  This is partially on the author, and I say this as somebody how writes as a hobby. It's not too difficult to publish on the Kobo store, and there are other stores out there. Of course, it's difficult to compete with Amazon when it comes to reach and to some small features, but they are no panacea either. For example, they don't support epub 3 with aural synchronized media, and they do something terrible to images embedded into ebooks that make them frankly useless. And they charge authors an outrageous amount for kilobyte of ebook content.
  - criddell 2y ago
    FWIW, Amazon generally doesn’t require DRM on ebooks.
  - YuccaGloriosa 2y ago
    I believe Amazon impose a whole bunch of conditions on people publishing on their platform. Along the lines of exclusivity and controlling where else if at all you can sell it. I'm pretty sure Corey Doctorow extensively covered this.
    - dsign 2y ago
      Yes they do. One particularly annoying one is about pricing: price can't be zero. If you write as a hobby and don't care about making a dollar, then Amazon gets in the way. Sure, you can publish in Amazon and charge 1 USD, but then you can't publish your book on your own website for free because it goes against Amazon's TOS. There are other peeves. Covers for example: it's against the TOS to have a cover that shows female nipples, but it's okay to show male nipples. Beyond the sexism of the rule, I'm worried that the way to enforce this is to have some ML system checking all the covers and making judgements about nipples. Which means you have to ask your cover artist to not draw anything that may accidentally look like the wrong kind of nipple \o/ .

google search "book_name epub"

sandeep1998 2y ago

same

throawayonthe 2y ago

[dead]

zuppy 2y ago

... but this does not replicate the kindle one-stop store experience. and looking on the kobo store doesn't help either, i wanted the experience for someone who actually migrated from kindle. i may find the books i'm looking for now, but what are the struggles for people who actually used it? do they come later than kindle, are they using multiple shops, etc. edit; yes, i know about the pirating options. i'm not talking about those.

goosedragons 2y ago
Kobo in my experience has all the books from big publishers, the publishers that publish paper books too. What they do not have is the stuff from Kindle Direct Publishing. This is stuff people have self-published on Kindle, I think Amazon requires exclusivity when you do that too? In my opinion this is actually more of a blessing than a curse since I consider 99% of that garbage I don't want to sift through. Sometimes multiple store headaches are still a necessity depending on region. Even on Amazon.
- joseda-hg 2y ago
  IIRC they give you a better revenue split or something of that nature if you only publish there

a-french-anon 2y ago

`filetype:epub book_name` should be tried first, in my opinion.

nolok 2y ago

This is rather terrible for supporting authors though. I read a lot of scifi from small authors who self publish on kindle direct publishing, and I would rather they get my money for their work. And yes I can pay then find the epub (and not all are available, due to small author), but the experience is then much worse.

jack_pp 2y ago
Contact the author, send direct to paypal. this way you get freedom, they get more money
dsign 2y ago
This is partially on the author, and I say this as somebody how writes as a hobby. It's not too difficult to publish on the Kobo store, and there are other stores out there. Of course, it's difficult to compete with Amazon when it comes to reach and to some small features, but they are no panacea either. For example, they don't support epub 3 with aural synchronized media, and they do something terrible to images embedded into ebooks that make them frankly useless. And they charge authors an outrageous amount for kilobyte of ebook content.
- criddell 2y ago
  FWIW, Amazon generally doesn’t require DRM on ebooks.
- YuccaGloriosa 2y ago
  I believe Amazon impose a whole bunch of conditions on people publishing on their platform. Along the lines of exclusivity and controlling where else if at all you can sell it. I'm pretty sure Corey Doctorow extensively covered this.
  - dsign 2y ago
    Yes they do. One particularly annoying one is about pricing: price can't be zero. If you write as a hobby and don't care about making a dollar, then Amazon gets in the way. Sure, you can publish in Amazon and charge 1 USD, but then you can't publish your book on your own website for free because it goes against Amazon's TOS. There are other peeves. Covers for example: it's against the TOS to have a cover that shows female nipples, but it's okay to show male nipples. Beyond the sexism of the rule, I'm worried that the way to enforce this is to have some ML system checking all the covers and making judgements about nipples. Which means you have to ask your cover artist to not draw anything that may accidentally look like the wrong kind of nipple \o/ .