I'm finding a e-book reader device and i'm so inexpert so if someone would give me some suggestions.... What i'm findind is a device: 1)cheaper 2)supports pdf...
Just to add to the list that Lida has posted, you might look at one of the low-cost Palms. Palm now has low cost ($100ish) color devices. Adobe supports PDF...
For those of you reading on Palm OS devices, like the Treo, Tungsten, or Zire, there's a new free release of Palm PDF, which is a port of the open source xpdf...
Jason Epstein has a review of 5 books about Google in the New York Review of Books, and along the way slips in information about his latest project, a POD...
Go to Amazon, search for ebooks. You'll end up at a page that says: e-Documents Looking for eBooks? Please visit our subsidiary at www.mobipocket.com to shop...
He also wrote http://www.amazon.com/Book-Business-Publishing-Present-Future/dp/0393322343/sr=8-3/qid=1159951044/ref=sr_1_3/102-7703743-6280125?ie=UTF8&s=books ...
Ed, From their August email to me in August this line seemed in keeping with what you describe: 'The Amazon.com Digital Text Team will keep you informed of any...
... problems that were not anticipated in converting Mobipocket pages to the Amazon system. ... Could be, but why bother? They own Mobi now; they could simply ...
I'd guess this is a transition. In order to have the titles at MobiPocket list on Amazon, there must be an agreement with the publishers/authors on record to...
I've discovered a useful way of installing an eBook whils on the go that other members may be interested in. A piece of software called 'Softick Card Export'...
[Techtalk Warning: For those knowledgeable with XML or book indexing.] As part of OpenReader format development, I'm interested in either established...
It seems Bowker is once again offering single ISBNs--at a very premium price: http://blog.selfpublishing.com/?p=145 Liz Elizabeth Burton, Executive Editor ...
Jon - As I'm interested in this myself,I've come across a site listing a XML Database Converter. Whilst I've not yet investigated this myself, it maybe worth a...
Euro-Reviews is looking for ebook-enthousiasts who would like to read and review ebooks. This is a volunteer position so you won't get paid but the ebooks are...
Hi, Everyone ... I just joined the group last week and doing my best to absorb as much of the wisdom from the prior posts as possible about ebook publishing ...
Found this review of the Sony eBook Reader: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100500863.html?referrer=email Rick Brooks...
There's a DRM discussion going on in the TeleRead blog at http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5612, in which our esteemed moderator, Jon Noring, mentions the idea...
... [The full comment by Bill is archived at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/26876 Thanks, Bill, for starting the discussion on DRM/TPM...
... Jon, I completely agree with this. For any given subject, there are different facets of it to be considered, each facet typically has its own taxonomy....
... Actually, that is not what I said. The "committee" or whatever will issue its requirements (no doubt looking at the current state of the art of DRM...
Today's International Herald Tribune has an interesting article today in it's technology section entitled "As books go online, publishers run for cover": ...
... ....."Once we can be assured that there will be security for our authors, then we can move forward," said Arnoud de Kemp, spokesman for the digital...
No kidding! Several people I know have canceled their orders FOR the Sony after learning how poorly it displays PDF. Those who know what they like already...
... Publishers and authors "use" both ebooks and DRM standards. You clearly have some sort of exclusionary rule in mind, but I don't understand what it is....
Hello, Everyone, I signed up for the eDoc program back in 2004, I think it was, and was getting emails about the program until May of last year. I know there...
... Well, Bill, I've made my views perfectly clear, but since you bring it up, let me point the reader to what I've written about this: 1. I write in:...
... Seems like an "exclusionary" principle to me. ... OK. What I'd like to know is what principle you apply to include some categories of user and exclude...
[From the thread: "the two kinds of DRM"] ... *shrug* Well, I think the vast majority of TeBC people would agree to my definition of "users", rather than an...
