Microsoft stops selling ebooks, offers refunds to customers

If you have been using the Microsoft Store as your point of purchase for ebooks, you're going to have to start shopping elsewhere. Microsoft has ditched the Books category from the store, and this means that not only will it not be possible to buy books from the Microsoft Store, but also that previous purchases will not be accessible after July. For anyone who has built up a library of ebooks via Microsoft, this will come as bad news -- but there is a slight silver lining. The company says that it will provide full refunds for all book purchases.… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'

[ Betanews | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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