tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post1869831172745785493..comments2024-03-18T22:39:50.137-07:00Comments on A Kindle World blog: British Library, Apple iPad pricing, Nook update, Macmillan ebooksAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-79174741594909985382010-08-09T03:30:19.685-07:002010-08-09T03:30:19.685-07:00Anonymous
I wish I knew when. Haven't read ...Anonymous<br /> I wish I knew when. Haven't read anything on this since...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-31978877538159476282010-08-07T13:17:31.016-07:002010-08-07T13:17:31.016-07:00When are the British Library digitized books to be...When are the British Library digitized books to be made available for download to the Kindle?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-48695409709572132502010-02-09T07:52:59.732-08:002010-02-09T07:52:59.732-08:00Stephen,
It's because these books will displ...Stephen,<br /> It's because these books will display the pages, from what we understand, as they look in their historic very early editions, which are ordinarily fairly costly, with the layout, fonts and illustrations as they appear to the reader of a print edition.<br /><br /> Also, 35% of the books have not ever been available. The pennydreadfuls will be interesting too.<br /><br /> What's DjVu? With Google's books, I prefer the ePub copy since the text reflows and all the Kindle features are available. <br /><br /> I have a few blog entries on the special Kindle catalog with direct downloads from Project Gutenberg <br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/kgutenb" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/kgutenb</a><br /><br /> and<br /><br /> Converting Google ePubs to Kindle format<br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/milkbooks" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/milkbooks</a><br /><br /> I get the impression Microsoft took a bit more care with the scanning for this project. Google's has so many oddities, including page slants and smudges as well as people's hands showing up :-) <br /><br /> I don't know how the Kindle might minimize pageload time for anything like image scans.<br /><br /> As for the Internet Archive I just did an entry on that at <a href="http://bit.ly/kw1024" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/kw1024</a>.<br /><br /> It's usually NON-Kindle people who don't know.<br /><br /> Like you, I have the DX and it's hard to use the K2 except for short trips outside the house.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-15095912772514692702010-02-09T07:33:01.822-08:002010-02-09T07:33:01.822-08:00I don't understand the excitment about British...I don't understand the excitment about British Library. Internet Archive has millions of scanned books. I've been reading native scanned books on my DX for months, it's the main reason I bought the Kindle. The only trick is you have to convert it from DjVu to PDF since Internet Archive's (and Google Books) PDF is not supported on the Kindle. Other than that, it works great. I don't understand why more people are not talking about or doing this. Original scaned books with native typeface, illustrations, page layout - they are freakin gourgeous and blow away the commercial Kindle offerings, and there are *millions* of books! Yet, few seem that aware..Stephenhttp://balbach.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-18849452807462092402010-02-09T02:01:21.526-08:002010-02-09T02:01:21.526-08:00Anonymous,
I've always seen the 'Digital...Anonymous,<br /> I've always seen the 'Digital List Price' when I was grabbing prices for the blog.<br /><br /> Your suggestion is good, but they are free to change their list prices by March too, but this'll give ua an idea, although some of them won't be best sellers by then.<br /><br /> On the other hand, Macmillan has not decreased their pricing for length of time at fictionwise.com so there's no reason to think they'd do that at Amazon either no matter what they say.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-13939361941719965052010-02-09T01:53:07.870-08:002010-02-09T01:53:07.870-08:00On the topic of Macmillan book prices, the Kindle ...On the topic of Macmillan book prices, the Kindle store lists the "Digital List Price" (is this new? I don't recall seeing it before), usually above the print price and the actual selling price, so if you want to know how much the book will be selling for in a month, look at that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com