I desperately need a source of ebooks for my Sony Reader. Not free books, and not classics - I can find plenty of those. I'm looking for new and current titles in the following categories: fantasy, scifi, fiction, classical and medieval history.
I'm in the UK so I'm blocked from buying from all the American sites I have looked at, which I find disgusting. Restrictions on books is something I have always associated with repressive dictator states, and always will. Why can't I buy ebooks when I can (and often do) buy American mass market paperbacks?
The only UK site is waterstones.com. The ebook portion of the site is rubbish and user unfriendly, and is becoming more so as time passes and extra books go up. They're glacially slow at adding new titles. They're barely adding anything decent; the last month's worth of books consists almost entirely of soft porn and romance books. They have taken down most of the books I brought! Heaven knows what will happen if I want to download them again.
I love my Reader, and it all started so well, but now I've read most of the 60 odd books on it and haven't found anything new worth picking up in over a month. I've got 2 trilogies which are missing books and so are unreadable. What possessed them to put up books 1 and 3 of a trilogy?! Worst yet I have been waiting 2 months for the missing books to go up, and both titles are available on American sites. BTW, a good half of those ~60 books are free classics which came on a CD with the device, so don't get the impression waterstones managed to find 60 good books.
I've had the device for 2 months and I've watched it go from great beginning to verging on disaster purely because waterstones (or the publishers?) can't get their act together.
[/plea for help with semi rant mixed in]
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