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PartisanEntity
December 25th, 2009, 06:22 PM
I'm stumped, I have never bought ebooks before and since I urgently need some books for a project I am working on, I thought I would try to purchase ebooks since I can have them as soon as I pay.

It seems to me that sites like amazon or barnes & noble have only very few books in ebook format?

I need books on "cloud/grid computing" and "software as a service".

Simple example, both sites have cloud computing for dummies in paperback form, but not in ebook form and this applies to many other titles I looked at.

Maybe I have been living behind the moon, but can anyone tell me what the premier ebook sellers are? I need stores that sell to europe too.

Thank you!

WorldTripping
December 25th, 2009, 06:26 PM
Tried here ?

http://www.ebooks.com/

Here is 'Cloud Computing for Dummies':

http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=468663

Never bought from them myself though.

WorldTripping.

PartisanEntity
December 27th, 2009, 07:58 PM
I gave ebooks.com a try, and bought an ebook. But Adobe Digital Editions (Adobe's e-content manager application) is unable to download the book for me and here is the error message:


Error getting license
License server communication problem: E_LIC_NO_DISTRIBUTION_RIGHTS

Has anyone bought from ebooks.com before? Are they legit?

I am worried it may be scam site :(

Zlatan
December 28th, 2010, 02:48 PM
I gave ebooks.com a try, and bought an ebook. But Adobe Digital Editions (Adobe's e-content manager application) is unable to download the book for me and here is the error message:



Has anyone bought from ebooks.com before? Are they legit?

I am worried it may be scam site :(

sorry for necromancy, but Thawte says www.eboocks.com is OK