Diesel eBook Store gets an upgrade no comments
Diesel has revamped its eBook Store and it definitely 
looks better than the last time I visited. Besides a better look and feel, there are more upgrades under the hood:
- Improved search, including a much better Advanced Search page.
- Expanded inventory: Diesel now claims to offer more than 2.4 million titles (includes 2 million Google public domain titles).
- User reviews and ratings with social networking capability.
- Publishers can now easily upload book trailer videos.
- Deal of the Day: Every day a specially priced ebook featured on the Diesel homepage.
- Expanded free ebook section.
- Bundles: Customers can now build their own ebook bundles around specific themes they create.
Diesel has a reward program that offers on average 3.5 cents for every $1.00 spent. Of course this is probably not going to fly with publishers using the agency model, but Diesel says that it does apply to over 400,000 titles. There is also a $0.50 credit for every approved ebook review customers write.
Most titles are available in Adobe ePub, with many also in PDF and other formats, including Mobi and Microsoft Reader.
“We have a lot of customers that are eReader agnostic. They all choose to read content differently. They’ve told us they don’t want to be shackled to any one specific reading device. This feedback has led to a robust, state of the art eBook website that will also serve as a flexible foundation upon which we’ll be rolling out many new applications and services all designed to facilitate the downloading of digital content,” said L. Scott Redford, founder and president of Diesel.
