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Old 04-17-2007, 06:32 PM   #3
RWood
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Welcome to MobileRead 6charlong.

Sony offers through their own CONNECT bookstore some of the current best sellers and a thin array of publisher's back catalog materials. Project Gutenberg has made classics available for many years in electronic form and the list grows larger every month. ManyBooks.net offers most of the PG books already formatted in LRF for the Sony Reader. FeedBooks.com offers a growing selection of books available in PDF files formatted for the Sony Reader. Blackhawk and Silk Pagoda offer DVDs of over 10,000 books formatted in either PDF or LRF for the Sony Reader. Add to that the many other sources of free eBooks like the Baen Free Library or the download section here at MobileRead and you have the ability to fill the Reader many times over with the best literature available for almost nothing.

Where most of the discussion centers now is on that group of books that are too new to be in the public domain; but, not new enough to be thought of as a big seller by the publishers. These are the ones that many are calling for the publishers and authors to either make available in ebook format or to release into the public domain. (Or at least to allow Project Gutenberg or ManyBooks to make available.)

As for the conversion tools from Sony, I find the books converted by BookDesigner to be superior to those offered by Sony through the CONNECT store.
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