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Launched in 2000, eBooks.com is a popular ebook retailer with a reputation for innovation, integrity and independence. We sell ebooks direct to millions of consumers around the world, with five local sales portals in the US, Canada, UK, Europe and Australia.
You can read our ebooks online, or download them to a vast array of devices, using our Ebook Reader apps. As well as being dubbed "The most ethical e-bookseller" by ethicalconsumer.com, eBooks.com is trusted by over 4,000 global publishers. We are also the supplier of choice for thousands of educational institutions around the world.
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All good and easy to purchase…
June 12, 2025
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Hi Aimee,
Thank you very much for your kind review. I'm glad it all went well for you.
Anna
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Straight forward purchase and download to my e-reader
June 9, 2025
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Hi Paul,
Thank you very much for the positive review.
Best wishes,
Anna
www.ebooks.com
Buying the book was easy enough
Buying the book was easy enough. The reading app is not as good as it could be, but better than it was once
June 6, 2025
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Hi Peter, and thank you for your review.
Just to let you know that we're currently rebuilding our reading apps, which will add heaps of functionality and features.
It's due for release in August-September.
Best wishes,
Anna
www.ebooks.com
really love this website
really love this website! great alternative to using amazon for ebooks, more flexibility with the ownership of your books too (:
May 28, 2025
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Hello Katherine,
Thank you very much for this kind review. It made my day!
James
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No Epubs - only Adobe DRM books and PDFs
I wanted to avoid Amazon for an Epub book for my kindle, saw that they had Epubs and thought I was onto a good thing.
Turns out the epub download link actually downloads some kind of Adobe file that only a new Adobe app will open and there is no way to get an Epub that will work on a Kindle.
This information needs to be much clearer, both on the product page and they should stop calling them Epubs and start calling them Adobe files.
May 24, 2025
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Hello Chris,
I'm sorry you had this trouble. Although the format of the ebook is technically EPUB, it's encrypted. Our customers do need to download and install a piece of free software in order to read our ebooks.
I will ask our dev team to change the wording we use, to make it clearer that this is the case - especially in relation to Kindle.
I think I'm right in saying that all Amazon's ebook competitors are in the same boat here; most mainstream publishers require us to encrypt their ebooks as an anti-piracy measure. But that creates obvious issues with interoperability.
Please just drop a line to our help desk and we'll be glad to process a full refund: support@ebooks.com.
Best wishes,
Anna
www.ebooks.com
EBOOKS.COM IS SECOND TO NONE!!
EBooks.com is the best ebook store on the planet,bar none!! All of the books purchased can be downloaded to your PC desktop and side loaded to your e-reader. Ever since Amazon stopped the ability to download to your PC on February 26, 2025 I have been searching for an ebook seller that would allow you to download to your PC desktop. Look no further that eBooks.com and did I mention the prices are very reasonable? Search no further! eBooks.com is second to none!!!
May 17, 2025
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Wow, Mike, thank you so much for this kind review. I hope we continue to please!
Best wishes from me and our small team,
James
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Great Customer Service.
I was very impressed with the speed and efficiency of my return. I had a problem with an order and I got an immediate response to my email and the issue resolved expeditiously. Thank you!
May 2, 2025
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Cyruss,
Thank you very much for taking the trouble to give us a 5-star review. I'm glad things were resolved quickly for you!
Best wishes,
James
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Easy to find the book I wanted
Easy to find the book I wanted, easy to pay and download. Font increases to 200% which is not large enough on a phone for people with vision issues. Although font can be changed and background colour can be changed to make words more easy to see. Pagination could be better too many words running over into the next line but otherwise ok
May 2, 2025
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Hello Cath,
Thank you very much for your 5 stars!
And thank you for your thoughts on our reader app. We're developing a brand new mobile app, with a strong focus on accessibility. It's going through some months of testing right now and it looks very promising. If you download and use that app (we'll advise all our customers when it's released), we would be very keen to her your thoughts.
The plan is to make the new app a dream come true for people with vision issues.
Best wishes and happy reading,
Anna
www.ebooks.com
I got a fine offer.
I got a fine offer.
No problems purchasing and downloading the book.
May 2, 2025
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Hello Ole, and thank you very much for this kind review!
Best wishes,
James
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My buying the ebook from start to…
My buying the ebook from start to finish was quick and easy and my reading on line is going equally as well.
May 1, 2025
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Thank you very much for your kind review. I'm glad it all works well for you.
Best wishes,
James
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As good as any other app
As good as any other app. Much better than some.
April 28, 2025
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Thank you for your review, Wendy. We're working on a new reader app which we hope will be a significant improvement on the current version. Big improvements in the features available and ease-of-use.
Best wishes,
James
www.ebooks.com
Submit button issues to create a ticket with CS
UPDATE:
seems like the submit button to create a ticket with the support team did not work on the website. After reaching out to eBooks.com via email, they were super helpful.
OLD REVIEW:
It is really concerning that on Trustpilot eBooks.com can answer within the same day, but when I created a ticket directly from my profile to have my issue addressed last week (related to
Invoice No. 256879255), no one seems to care about it. Probably my first and last e-book I have purchased here. Be careful guys!!!
April 12, 2025
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Hello Juraj, thanks for the two stars (considering it might have been 1).
And I'm sorry we let you down here.
We pretty consistently respond to support queries within an hour or few. Is it possible our reply went to spam?
I've looked into our help desk but can't see any recent correspondence from Juraj in there. Can you please email reading@ebooks.com with the email address that you registered with us and I'll make sure it gets to the right person, pronto. If you can include the invoice (receipt) number for your purchase that will help, but just the email address should get us there.
Best wishes,
Anna
www.ebooks.com
Very easy to use website
Very easy to use website, purchase was quick, as was the download.
After adding an item to my basket it would be useful to be sent back to place where I was in my search instead of back to the start of my search.
April 14, 2025
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Hi David,
Thank you very much for the 5 stars! And thank you also for the suggestion, which is definitely a good idea. I have forwarded it to our development team for implementation.
Happy reading!
Anna
Easy to find what I'm looking for.in…
Easy to find what I'm looking for.in multiple modes...
April 12, 2025
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Thank you very much for taking the trouble to review eBooks.com, Tara. Happy reading!
James
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too much work for such a price, not reader-friendly
I wanted to find an alternative to amazon, which is really needed. I cannot download my e-books and read them without being forced to download their own reader. All ebooks are purchased at the same price as the print, the font is small, zooming in makes it blurry and is a feature not always available. the pages take time to load and if I want to go back, the pages are blank and more loading is necessary. using an oly kindle is not possible. all in all terrible experience. I am going back to paper books and unfortunately amazon for some that I can't get at my local bookstore, but this website is just too much work at such a price.
April 12, 2025
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Hello Jade,
I'm very sorry you had such a disappointing experience at eBooks.com.
Please reach out to our help desk and they will be glad to process a full refund. support@ebooks.com.
Best wishes,
Anna
www.ebooks.com
Poor Business Practice
I don't recall subscribing to this site; however, I have been charged $49.00 on my credit card. I obtained their telephone number through my bank and called them THREE times, explaining the situation and requesting a refund. They said the same thing three times: We will issue you a credit, which will take about 7-10 days. Today is April 10th, and I haven't received anything. The gal I had spoken with this morning was cocky and very rude. I didn't get to finish what I was saying, and she hung up on me. Is this what you call business etiquette? By the way, I have called them on January 31, February 11, and today, April 10th.
April 10, 2025
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Reply from eBooks.com
Thank you for contacting us via TrustPilot. However you have reviewed the wrong company. We have no record of any contact from you on this matter. Our telephone support staff are all male at the moment; no females - so clearly you spoke with a different company, not eBooks.com.
There are a lot of companies with the word "ebook" in their names. Please check your credit card account for the exact name of the merchant who did bill you, and contact them.
If you require further help, just contact our help desk at https://support.ebooks.com/hc/en-us/requests/new.
Negative reviews like this can really hurt our business. I would be very grateful if you could return to TrustPilot and correct this review.
Yours sincerely,
James
www.ebooks.com
A no nonsense ebook retailer
Fair prices, easy to use. Well working search engine.
April 7, 2025
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Reply from eBooks.com
Hello Trond and thank you very much for taking the time to submit a 5-star review! We're very grateful.
Kind regards,
Anna
www.ebooks.com
Looking to get away from Amazon
Looking to get away from Amazon. This works fine.
April 2, 2025
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Thank you for joining us Joe!
Best wishes,
Anna
www.ebooks.com
Poor reader quality and no response to support request
I'm another person who has regretted purchasing with ebooks.com due to the VERY clunky interface offered by both the online and downloaded readers.
The downloaded reader is especially terrible.
The interface and page viewing functionality are poor, and it claims to provide a search function, but it doesn't actually work.
I can also now no longer read a purchased book using the online reader (I keep getting an error message that I've tried to download the book too many times, which makes no sense!). I've followed the FAQ advice to resolve this with no success and have now contacted support twice but have not had any acknowledgement or response.
April 1, 2025
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Reply from eBooks.com
Hello Not-happy-Jan,
I can see why you're not happy, and must apologise for the disappointing experience you had at eBooks.com.
We should organise a full refund. Please write to us at reading@ebooks.com and we'll get that done pronto. Include the email address that you signed up with (in case it's different from the one you're writing to us from).
We'll also look into what went wrong with your reading experience, to apply necessary remedies.
Right now we're working on a totally new reading experience for desktop, mobile and streaming, which will be launched later in the year. Hopefully that will mean an all-round better reading experience for our customers.
Best wishes,
James
www.ebooks.com
I am running an experiment
I am running an experiment, can I de USA myself as I am one of the people who fears the worse. I read ebooks, I now read on a non USA app at the moment using android but thinking of going Linux when I work it out. Where do I get my books from, eBooks dosn't fly the flag but at least they don't seem political, they still charge the same. A step forward.
March 23, 2025
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Reply from eBooks.com
Hello Richard,
Thanks so much for your review, and I hope your experiment works out well for you.
Just FYI, eBooks.com is a 100% Australian owned family business. We have an operating subsidiary in the UK but do not have any US operations.
Best wishes,
Anna
www.ebooks.com
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