Re: Fictionwise

I wouldn't expect to hear anything out of Fictionwise ever again. They were
bought by Barnes & Noble for their e-book technology, and ever since that
happened the Pendergrasts who founded it haven't been allowed to talk to
anyone, and the new things such as the Linux client that the Pendergrasts
had been talking about prior to the acquisition never materialized. B&N has
no interest in allowing Fictionwise to innovate or do anything else new,
since they want all their effort to go into outcompeting Amazon with their
Nook.

I think Fictionwise and eReader are just as dead as Amazon's Mobipocket.
The corpses just haven't stopped twitching yet.

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Beth Young <[email protected]> wrote:

> I keep hoping someone here will answer your question, because I've been
> wondering the same thing. I don't know if anyone knows the answer. :(
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:41 PM, y2kwitch <y2kwitch-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I just joined to try to find out something.
> > Does anyone here know the situation at Fictionwise?
> > Are they just cutting back services, or are they about to close?
>

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