12-01-2009, 07:17 AM | #1 |
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Format or eReader?
I would love to know how everyone decides how they buy their eBooks regardless of being free or paid for.
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Thanks Wetdogeared and Katti's Kat
Valuable answers so far and definately food for thought. |
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What I do when I am looking for eBooks is to search for what's available or something specific. Then I'll see what formats the eBook is available in and if it's one of the three I can deal with and the price is not too high, I'll buy. I search for ePub first, MS Reader second, and Mobipocket third. I liberate the format from ePub and fix it up as I want and with the others, I liberate the DRM and then convert to ePub and sort it out and voila done. Before I bought my first Reader, I did have a look on MobileRead and I did see Book Designer and libprs500. So I know I was able to convert some content to LRF to then be able to read. I was able to strip the DRM from MS Reader format and convert fairly easily. So I did have a good enough supply of eBooks. |
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12-01-2009, 10:41 AM | #13 |
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Being a user of a PDA, I can read most e-book formats. E-book SW is still available for most handheld devices, usually for free, and quite a lot of them are still in use, despite the proliferation of dedicated devices these days.
Therefore, I look for the book first, and check for available formats afterward. Sometimes I will convert a book from an available format to a preferred format, but that is not always a choice (if the book has DRM on it). I also usually pass on a book that has DRM, but not always. |
12-01-2009, 10:45 AM | #14 |
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As a fiction editor, BD, I'm well used to some pretty horrendous presentation of raw manuscripts (hard copy and digital), so I'm not too worried when a book I'm reading for fun is a tad scruffy on my PRS-505.
It's good to see a retailer taking the pulse, though, because recreational readers deserve a well laid out book in return for the investment of their money and their time. I hope you'll pass on what advice you gather here and elsewhere to your other publishers because it's as much the publisher's job to get his ebooks spot on as his treebooks. My own house has always sold through you, by the way, and we're already working on the conversion of our entire catalogue. Very best. Neil |
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BD: Around these parts, we usually refer to e-book reading devices as "dedicated devices" or "dedicated readers," as opposed to "eReader," which, as Jon pointed out, is the proper name of a particular e-book format (like MobiPocket and ePub, etc). Of course, Jon is aware that outside of these parts, calling these devices "eReaders" is fairly common... Last edited by Steven Lyle Jordan; 12-01-2009 at 10:58 AM. |
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