Comments on: Why are British bookstores digging the grave for ePub?

By: Jeremy Crompton

Jeremy Crompton — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 09:14:12 +0000

It gets even better. I have over £80 of ebooks on my WH Smith bookshelf, including a pre-ordered book I should be able to download right about now. Since the move from Overdrive can I access these books? Can I heck as like! I have accidentally deleted on e title and I cannot download it again. WH Smith Customer Service (no there’s a badly named department) have failed spectacularly to provide a satisfactory answer. Mt daughter is having exactly the same problems with exactly the same lack of response. Time to buy a Kindle 3 I think…..I will certainly not buy another ebook from WH Smith.

By: Gone Digital | eBook pricing update: where have my favourite authors gone?

Gone Digital | eBook pricing update: where have my favourite authors gone? — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:30:49 +0000

[...] world of publishing and bookselling, it seems, has other ideas. I wrote not that long ago about the new version of the WH Smith eBook store, and when Kindle launched I compared the prices [...]

By: Nigel

Nigel — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:42:42 +0000

I guess that’s another casualty of it being moved from Overdrive to a WH Smith in-house operation.

By: Avril Collins Martinez

Avril Collins Martinez — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:05:25 +0000

You’re lucky! Before September I could buy ebooks from WHSmith with no problem! Now I can’t…..why not? Well…I have the temerity to live outside the Uk! I live in Spain and although my credit card was welcome before Sept it seems that now it’s not! Pathetic!