Comments on: B&N shuts down the pioneering Fictionwise digital bookstores

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:25:59 +0000

Fictionwise died long before, when it became the landing zone for e-book bodice rippers and erotic fiction. As much as I may not care about who reads these genres, it is far from mainstream and low in volume. They doomed themselves.

By: Christopher Dockens

Christopher Dockens — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:41:54 +0000

I agree, ePub and almost any format including PDF is supported by Amazon, it just compiles it as a .MOBI file for their Kindle platform.

By: Matthew Cashmore

Matthew Cashmore — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:47:04 +0000

But Amazon DOES support EPUB. Any standards complaint EPUB file will run through Amazon’s ingestion engine with no issues. The final file you see is the proprietary Amazon file – just like Apple – but it’s not fair to say amazon does not support EPUB.

By: jenboudinot

jenboudinot — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:13:18 +0000

That’s too bad. The year that Barnes & Noble laid me off in a giant round of layoffs, they bought fictionwise WITH CASH. Any word on how many people are going to lose their jobs now? I guess there’s no point in asking them, when 100s were laid off when I was, they said “a few” people were laid off.