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Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone
Microsoft has decided to discontinue the books category in the Microsoft Store, with customers no longer allowed to purchase new content since April 2.
Furthermore, the software giant says that all books would be removed in July 2019, and users would be offered refunds for their purchases.
"Starting April 2, 2019, the books category in Microsoft Store will be closing. Unfortunately, this means that starting July 2019 your ebooks will no longer be available to read, but you'll get a full refund for all book purchases," the company announces [Ed's note: blank without JS --FP].
"While you can no longer purchase or acquire additional books from the Microsoft Store, you can continue to read your books until July 2019 when refunds will be processed."
All refunds will be offered with the same payment method that you used to purchase books from the store, Microsoft says. In case this method is no longer valid or if you purchased a book using a gift card, the credit is added to your Microsoft account and you can then spend it in the Microsoft Store. [...]
Also at the BBC.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday April 04 2019, @07:43PM
.... Unlike Sony, who were smart enough to form an alliance with another ebook seller and transfer most purchases over to their platform and thereby avoid having to do cash refunds.
But Microsoft wouldn't want to give neither Barnes & Noble nor Amazon the trade. (Or, who knows, maybe they asked and were told no.)
This sig for rent.