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Amazon's attempt to control the book world extends everywhere, they own the following:
Goodreads
Abebooks
Librarything (40%, through Abebooks)
Kindle
Audible
You don't have to get your books from Amazon or use Amazon book services. There are much more ethical alternatives available:
https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-amazon-and-goodreads/
Some of these alternatives are also on the Fediverse:
@inventaire
@libreture
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Geez, them too...
The illusion of choice I guess :blobsad:
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@priryo @inventaire @libreture
Yup, Amazon bought Abebooks in 2008, and part of the deal included 40% of LibraryThing.
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@aperalesf @inventaire @libreture
I haven't tried syncing positions as I only have one device, but I would assume Kobo does that?
(I can't swear to this though as I haven't tried syncing positions.)
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@aperalesf @inventaire @libreture
The support page for Kobo says that syncing includes "bookmarks or annotations in eBooks", bookmarks sounds like it means positions:
switching.social
Yup, so-called "drop shipping". It ought to be banned from ebay, it disguises the origin of goods.
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@hoergen @inventaire @libreture
I'm not sure what you mean?
Is that on the Kobo search tool?
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Kobo's DRM-free section is only for books that are sold DRM-free on Kobo.com.
FASA can add DRM-free books to Kobo if they want?
I used to sell an ebook on Kobo DRM-free and it was just a case of registering as an author, uploading the book for sale and making sure it was set to DRM-free.
If you're just looking for a guide to DRM-free bookshops, @libreture has an excellent one.
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@FASA_Andrew_1879 @inventaire @libreture
I tried to include real books at the top of the article with ebooks in the remainder.
I will take a look at the sites you suggest 👍 I don't know much about them, that's the only reason they're not listed!
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That tiny little company Amazon and its plucky underdog Jeff Bezos 🙄
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As far as I know there's no exact replacement for Goodreads, but I can't see why there couldn't be?
@inventaire gets its book title data from Wikidata and contributes to the database as well, and anyone can use that data.
Perhaps someone can develop this further based on existing sites, or start something new?
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@Alamantus @libreture @inventaire
There would definitely be demand, Goodreads comes up regularly as a thing people want a direct alternative for 👍
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@Alamantus @switchingsocial @libreture lists of books (either wishlist, reocmmandations, bibliographies, etc) are something we are working on to integrate to Inventaire: I'm quite certain it will happen, it's just hard to say when. If you're interested in helping us building it, you're all very welcome to join our communication channels https://wiki.inventaire.io/wiki/Communication-channels -- Maxime
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@carbontwelve @Alamantus @inventaire @libreture @sohkamyung @tootbrute
I think there would be an audience, Goodreads really does come up again and again when people send me requests for alternatives.
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@jofazepa @inventaire @libreture
Thanks for the headsup, sad to find out :blobsad:
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