Woolworths Mobilers Can Buy eBooks/Music/Games/Apps Using "Credit" (A $29 Recharge = $29 Credit)

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  Unorthodox on 09/02/2014 - 19:31

  +3

  Optus should just make an agreement with Google Play and allow mobile billing like Telstra.

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  phor8 on 09/02/2014 - 19:42

  +1

  cool, though not much to pick from and im getting all sorts of fatal errors on links in their site

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  leonheart1 on 09/02/2014 - 22:05

  Actually with music I've preferred using MOG streamnig on Telstra paid out of a discounted starter kit. This can work out to $4 per month.

  I prefer and use google play music for 3.33 a month.

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  NeoM on 09/02/2014 - 22:59

  You can also do credit Me2U with the $29, but you can only transfer a max of $10/month (send or receiving). Works well with the $2 days plan: that's 5 days for free!*
  *$2 Days must already have credit, and Me2U credit will not extend the existing expiry date.

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    Member 0230 on 10/02/2014 - 09:14

    That's curious. I can send and receive a lot more than $10 a month via Me2u, although I can only send in max $10 lots (so sending $20 is 2 lots of $10). I am on prepaid if that makes a difference.

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      franush on 10/02/2014 - 12:30

      Are you with Telstra? Both Optus and Telstra call it me2u. Optus is more restrictive with it.

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  firstpost bekind on 10/02/2014 - 08:46

  What happens when you cancel your woolies number do you lose all the stuff

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    Lukian on 10/02/2014 - 09:44

    (If) You aren't renting the content, you're buying it with mobile billing.

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    franush on 10/02/2014 - 12:44

    Fair question, like Lukian said you are buying the content and not renting it. I guess it all comes down to the T&Cs which you'd need to understand to know what you're buying. I know DRM can be set up to only allow an ebook to be read for a limited time. I don't fully understand the intricacies of the way you have to work with the DRM used in these books but it looks like the book is linked to my Adobe ID and I need to log into my ereader so that I can read the book.

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  LolwutMikka on 10/02/2014 - 11:04

  Care to elaborate on how to get MOG for $4 a month? I'm paying $7/m even with a staff discount

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    franush on 10/02/2014 - 12:50

    It's just involves getting a cheap starter kit and paying the monthly fee out of that.

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  franush on 10/02/2014 - 13:09

  What do you think about the presentation of ebooks? It continually strikes me how bare the whole ebook experience is. To me using them is more of a discipline than like the rich experience with a physical book. The first time I encountered ebooks they were on project gutenberg, swathes of unformatted text files. Lots of valuable human expression that I really didn't need to read at the moment. Looking at ebooks again these days (those great kindle freebies) I hoped an ebook would be like a fully formatted pdf of the print version but instead they look like web pages did in 1995, basically like text files rendered in Times Roman scattered with a bunch of blue hyperlinks. I reassure myself that authors probably present their work to publishers as minimally formatted text files and everything else that's done to a book before you get it is done by other creatives on the way to you. I guess if a book is engrossing enough I wouldn't care if it was written in chalk on a blackboard…