More importantly, I want the teaser page back! I’ve noticed they also seem to be getting rid of this on print books in favor of more advertising (promoting the other books out that month or in the series or whatever), but in the e-book we don’t even get that, it just goes right to a table of contents and the content itself.

I just bought a Harlequin ebook this month that has a teaser “page” right after the cover and title pages.

I know with ebooks, the cover isn’t as likely to be looked at once the book is being read, but I wish they’d use higher quality pictures. Usually, the pictures are so highly pixelated that they’re hardly worth looking at.

On a side note, when I first started reading ebooks, it was on my PDA. I remember reading a book that I’d gotten a good look at the cover somewhere, and I hit one of those passages where you can tell the artist obviously hasn’t read the book. (You know, hero is blond, but the picture has dark brown hair…)

Anyway, without thinking, I turned the PDA around to see the back so I could look at the picture…of course, realizing in that same half-second that I wasn’t reading a print book! ;-)

Also, is there a way to purchase an ebook for someone else, or send someone a voucher for a specific ebook? We have lots of Harlequin authors visit our blog, and I like to give away copies of their books as prizes – it would be so much more convenient and cost-effective if I could be sending ebook prizes instead.

I can say “Me too!” to most of what’s been said above. But I’ll especially mention that I’d like the ability to store my bundled books unbundled. And I love, love, love Jane’s idea for an annual subscription that would let me pick X number of books each month from whichever lines I want.

Edited to add:

I would love to buy books directly from e-harlequin, but end up buying from ereader or fictionwise because my formats aren’t available on e-harlequin. Love the extra features of the e-harlequin web site but am disappointed that I can’t buy my formats from there.

Malle (Harlequin’s Digital Team)

I’ve also gone to the website looking to buy a particular book and typed in the authors name and/or the title in the search function and gotten a page to the effect of “sorry, nothing found.” But when I tried under a particular line (ie Superromance or Blaze), it was there.

I had this problem when I was trying to buy Catch of the Day. I had to come back here to get the link and paste it in directly. Very annoying. The whole buying experience sucked and because of it, they lost about $35 in impulse purchases because I had to keep starting over and got tired.

On the other hand, almost every other e-publisher’s ebook buying experience is nearly as bad, and fictionwise.com is just too busy/cluttered for my eyeballs. I like booksonboard.com and diesel-ebooks.com for their easy-peasy buying experience. (Also, with diesel-ebooks.com, I love the option to buy a bundle of similarly themed books, even though I haven’t splurged yet.)

More formats than presently offered.

I’ve also gone to the website looking to buy a particular book and typed in the authors name and/or the title in the search function and gotten a page to the effect of “sorry, nothing found.” But when I tried under a particular line (ie Superromance or Blaze), it was there.