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 In case this method is no longer valid or if you purchased a book using a gift card, the credit is added to your Microsoft account and you can then spend it in the Microsoft Store.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: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @08:34PM (1 child)
I didn't know they even had a book store. What was it called, "Reads for sure"?
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday April 04 2019, @08:55PM
I'm the world's most famous author. A huge fan of Microsoft. And I didn't know about it. I wish I'd known. I think if Microsoft carried my EBOOKS their cyber store would really have taken off. Microsoft is well known as the makers of the very best, most modern cyber. But so many times the Marketing is very lacking. Sorry Satya!!!!