Comments on: Get three free Stephen King e-books from Fictionwise

E-bookseller Fictionwise is offering a 100-percent rebate on three Stephen King novels, though the money has to stay in your store account.

[Zen-Masta]

Geeze their pricing is the same as buying a real book. Once manufacturing costs are out the window there's only publisher and royalty. I don't understand buying ebooks at costs the same or higher than the real deal.

[rickbroida]

I agree 100% that e-book prices should be significantly lower than their print counterparts. After all, there's no printing, binding, shipping, storage, etc. That said, Fictionwise does discount most titles, and the Micropay rebates help you get more bang for the book buck.

[benjaminstraight]

How do people read a novel online?

[rickbroida]

You don't read the books online. You download them to your PC and/or PDA or smartphone.

[Shaun822]

I don't pay 15 to 20 dollars to buy an album on itunes and I am not paying full retail for ebooks when there is no manufacturing costs to be considered. Especially, when the free books are 20+ years old as are many of the other books they offer.

[wende1167]

I love Fictionwise and have been a Buywise member for years, I like the portablilty of having over a thousand novels and short stories on my treo memory card :-), and it's a lot lighter to carry than the pile of printed material would be, I also don't have to worry about losing the material by accidently leaving it somewhere. (it's on my pc and my pda) There are always sales, rebates, deals, etc on the site. Even coupon offers to use when you leave items on your wishlist or in your cart for awhile. I do tend to limit the amount I'm willing to spend on a single book but that applies to traditional as well as ebooks and audiobooks.

[wende1167]

Also....the rebate for these books goes into the micropay account so that you can use the funds to purchase other ebooks from the site, which in a lot of cases will be less expensive. I like the Secure Mobipocket format, Mike Resnick, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, Mercedes Lackey, Mary Janice Davidson, Patricia Briggs, Kage Baker, Simon Wood, Christine Feehan, Tim Dorsey....