<warning> longish post </warning> Whilst I have contributed to some of the more general comments on this thread I haven't yet addressed the original query, or...
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Katharine C. Krueger
shippard@...
Jul 1, 2001 9:21 am
Jon Jermey <jonjermey@... wrote: <snip>New books and books with high earning potential: go out with lots of copy-protection on glossy corporate...
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Spinner
spinner@...
Jul 1, 2001 1:39 pm
... Thanks, Kate. The design criteria for the site was a net equivalent of walking into a bookstore and browsing through shelves of books. We also wanted to...
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Spinner
spinner@...
Jul 1, 2001 5:04 pm
... Very nice. Thanks to this discussion, I've decided how to define 'book ownership' for our customers. It has to be an individual decision by each...
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aglick1@...
Jul 1, 2001 7:28 pm
I recently wrote a negative review of the current RCA/Gemstar Rocket e-book on the Barnes & Noble site, scrupulously conforming to their review guidlines. I...
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Terry R.L. Williams
terry.williams@...
Jul 1, 2001 7:35 pm
Alan Glick said: <Snip>The review has not been posted after a week. Instead, I notice that recently the only reviews that have been appearing are extremely...
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mexicoblue@...
Jul 1, 2001 10:17 pm
... at ... evaluating, ... Pamela -- do you know what they pay the reviewers and if there are any sample reviews to look at? Blue...
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Erik Walter
ebook@...
Jul 1, 2001 11:07 pm
... This is a very good point. I frequently forget that not everyone here has the same audience and goals. The other interesting point recently made is that...
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Timothy
ctgager37@...
Jul 2, 2001 1:17 am
Jim (not an employee of Gemstar) My REb 1100's battery ran down and I lost the charger somewhere in my house. I searched the web page, start-up book and drove...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@...
Jul 2, 2001 1:48 am
From: aglick1@... ... There have been close links between B&N and Gemstar in the recent past. B&N is one of two companies selling RCA 1100/1200...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@...
Jul 2, 2001 1:55 am
... It's not like it's hard to dig my e-mail out from this list and send a request directly. Makes me a heck of a lot less paranoid than seeing my name as the...
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Marty Scholes
marty@...
Jul 2, 2001 2:43 am
I have been following this group for a coupla weeks and had to throw out my opinion. First of all, these are some of the most intelligent postings I have seen...
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Wendy Cannon
wen@...
Jul 2, 2001 6:51 am
I just wanted to say that although I am not into Fantasy reading I really enjoyed looking at the covers in the Crossroads publications. The first one...
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Troy Johnson
tjohnson@...
Jul 2, 2001 1:33 pm
I am going to be discussing electronic book readers to a group of librarians. I have personal experience with the REB1100 and some of the readers used on the...
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yen Vincent
vyen@...
Jul 2, 2001 2:45 pm
Troy, REB100, the unit are not really good for student use and Palm, lots of software will be limited. Why don't you lok this one, maybe this will be your...
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Elliott, Desta J.
DJElliott@...
Jul 2, 2001 3:13 pm
Can anyone point me to a website or mailing list that discusses the how-to aspects of ebook creation and formatting. thanks Smiths Group E-MAIL CONFIDENTIALITY...
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russotto@...
Jul 2, 2001 4:11 pm
... doing such ... to enable ... transferred to the ... appropriate ... really ... That's worse. ... your new ... updates the ... Word, ... used on ... ...
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Millard Johnson
zendog@...
Jul 2, 2001 5:15 pm
It is not all that simple: Private property is a fairly high level abstraction. So far as I know, only human beings have the concept. Intellectual property is...
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Troy Johnson
tjohnson@...
Jul 2, 2001 6:07 pm
Does anyone on the list have an idea of what the price of the authoring software for the Microsoft Reader is? I know that there is a plug-in in word to create...
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anneh@...
Jul 2, 2001 8:45 pm
Thanks to list member Eva Almeida who sent me the URL to her ultra-useful compiler resource site. It has all the info I needed so badly about what software is...
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aglick1@...
Jul 2, 2001 9:29 pm
I did ask Barnes & Noble directly via e-mail. I have not received a response as of yet. If and when they do send me a response I'll post it here. Alan Glick ...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@...
Jul 2, 2001 10:38 pm
From: aglick1@... ... I'd be very surprised if you get any response from them. No one likes to be called on the carpet for negative decisions. -- ...
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Jerry S. Justianto
jsjm6@...
Jul 3, 2001 4:33 am
Look at http://www.overdrive.com http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/DownLoadPublisherStep1.asp Regards, Jerry Pocket PC eBooks Watch ...
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kdstruck
kdstruck@...
Jul 3, 2001 8:23 am
i got to use my cousin's eBookman (he's my partner in Awe-Struck, too) over the weekend and i think it's slick. he's had no glitches with his, and the screen...
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Daniel P. B. Smith
dpbsmith@...
Jul 3, 2001 10:58 am
On close inspection, you'll see that they actually have published many negative reviews. Indeed reviewers are sharply divided--a lot of five-stars, a lot of...
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Jonathan Lyons @ The ...
jonathan@...
Jul 3, 2001 12:50 pm
... <snip> I thought the eBookman also incorporated PDA functionality ... Is that correct? If so, its screen size makes it potentially more valuable to me than...
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noring@...
Jul 3, 2001 1:38 pm
From http://www.openebook.org/ : "The Publication Structure Specification 1.0.1 has been elevated to the status of 'Recommended Specification.' Publication...
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Roger Sperberg
rsperberg@...
Jul 3, 2001 2:13 pm
... Microsoft offers a plug-in for Word 2000 that allows you to format the book in Word and generate a .lit file for Reader. It has severe limitations but is...
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Robin Butterhof
robin_butterhof@...
Jul 3, 2001 2:17 pm
... <snip> The eBookman comes with an address book, date book, memo book, to-do book and can sync personal information with Lotus Notes 5.0, Lotus Organizer ...
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Jonathan Lyons @ The ...
jonathan@...
Jul 3, 2001 2:27 pm
... It does, but I have another question for those who know eBookman: Does it have a Pocket Word or compatible app? This may never really matter to me, but...
