... I don't know about Questia, and my info on Netlibrary is probably dated, but a question worth asking is what proportion of their inventory is actually...
Michael Ward (mjward@...) wrote in message ... And, since permission is explicitly granted to copy and share (but not sell) the disc, you can...
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Michael Hart
hart@...
May 1, 2003 7:46 pm
... Under the capitalist system you can't complain about what anyone charges for anything. . .with some few anti-trust and price-fixing laws that are barely...
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Lee Fyock
lee@...
May 1, 2003 8:11 pm
... The way this was explained to me was this: Buying a book is perhaps the smallest portion of a library's cost. The cost of handling the hardcopy, putting...
Hello Sveta, ... In my opinion it is different services so you can create ebooks yourself and then sell them thru PDA- related sites, amazon, etc. ... ...
You can find a list of the netLibrary books on education bought (or should it be 'bought'?) by Hong Kong Public Library at ...
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ebook-community@yahoo...
May 2, 2003 6:27 am
This is a monthly reminder that The eBook Community maintains an archive in the Files Area of Project Gutenberg's weekly and monthly newletters, and special...
... My wife does work in a library. She tells me that as a general rule of thumb they figure that it costs them an additional $35 over and above the cost of ...
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Michael Hart
hart@...
May 2, 2003 3:48 pm
... I have heard figures as high as $50 for this, and that was a while ago, so I must presume inflation has continued to take its toll at The Phantom...
See: http://minipc.vulcan.com/ Now this should be of real interest to ebookers. A true PC which can run Windows XP (and I assume Linux as well) in a form...
I'm sure there's a market for this, but I'm not in it. Here's why: * Don't want a PC. I've got a PC - two, in fact. If I want one that I can carry around I can...
... I would think the price is somewhat discouraging. A modern Palm handheld is about $500, I don't know what the device you suggest would cost, but if it is a...
New working draft on SVG 1.2 also addresses issues such as reflow. The nice thing about SVG is that it can represent complex layouts that OEB (or HTML) just...
Texterity has provided an on-line magazine called Metropole (interesting, consumer oriented) using our latest TextCafe SVG solution. Link:...
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Cameron Dorey
camerond@...
May 4, 2003 4:17 am
... This isn't the first time this kind of mini-form factor PC has been "announced." Over a year ago, a company called OQO (www.oqo.com), made up primarily of...
... The devices are certainly quite compact, but they seem to be only an evolutionary step beyond the Toshiba Librettos. The Libretto 50, in particular, comes...
... Does anyone here know the current status of the "fuel cell" battery? They promise to allow even power-hungry devices to run for a long time. The downside,...
... As a followup to my own question, I found quite a few companies are now working on miniature fuel cell technology. Some are based on using a combustible...
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Jay A Hartman
jhartman@...
May 4, 2003 6:12 pm
As a person who loathes .pdf, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Metropole online. Now if there was some way to transfer it to my PocketPC and retain the same ...
Jay A Hartman wrote: As a person who loathes .pdf, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Metropole online. Now if there was some way to transfer it to my PocketPC and...
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Steve Thomas
stephen.thomas@...
May 5, 2003 4:34 am
... When I bought my Palm IIIc, several years ago, the most important feature was its rechargable battery -- other Palm models were not rechargeable, which...
... Of course, the act of recharging itself is not without its own hassle. One has to carry a cord (often with a transformer affixed), one has to find a...
Speaking of off-beat devices as possible eBook devices... I sometimes wonder about portable dvd-players. You can get a 7" screen model for about $600US, and...
Jon wrote, in part, "As a final note, I own a PocketPC, and for me I find it so limiting I don't even bother to haul it around. I want a full-OS portable PC,...
... If that was the way they worked, they would indeed be inconvenient. Someone - or some source of info - has been remiss in not conveying a better...
... Screen size is definitely one of the issues. As Steve just noted, we seem to have a fundamental conflict between screen size and device size for the visual...
... I just wouldn't want to carry it. I saw an interesting tidbit recently - it turns out that one place where people use cellphone/wireless finance and...
Hello, The Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center has been involved in a pilot project to offer digital audio e-books to our patrons. The preliminary report by Tom...
Actually, let me point out the Garmin iQue 3600, which is a very slick display at 320x480, better than most handhelds. 32MB of internal memory (about 80...
