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Old 08-16-2011, 06:02 PM   #31
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Whoops, I was wrong on two points -- that you can download from Amazon directly without K4PC ...
I believe you can only download directly without K4PC if you have a kindle registered. I don't and the download option is not available to me, I have to use K4PC.
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I believe you can only download directly without K4PC if you have a kindle registered. I don't and the download option is not available to me, I have to use K4PC.
That is absolutely correct.
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Old 08-16-2011, 10:48 PM   #33
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Well, Amazon *can* be directly downloaded to your computer for sideloading to the kindle, though I find it easier to use Kindle for PC so I can use Calibre to remove DRM.
Odd. I find it easier to do just the opposite for the exact same reason.
No need to even have k4pc on my machine, just download to my desktop and drag and drop onto Calibre.
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I believe you can only download directly without K4PC if you have a kindle registered. I don't and the download option is not available to me, I have to use K4PC.
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That is absolutely correct.
Ah! That explains why I can't figure out how to do it -- I don't have a Kindle. Huh.

I feel less stupid now.
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Please, when you come in plugging your latest book, please don't tell us it's only available for the Kindle. That just makes you look bad.
No, it doesn't.
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No, it doesn't.
It kinda does to me. I mean, I don't have a kindle, and many others don't, and the message I get from a kindle exclusive is "I don't care enough about you to be bothered with selling to you".
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Kindle has perhaps the most name brand recognition among dedicated ereaders. I think epub is the most widely used format in new ebooks although it might still be pdf.

Up to the author/publisher of course, but as Amaradoll says it is their loss.

The universally viewable format is still paper and then their are quite a few kindle apps for various devices so it is not like anybody is being excluded.

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Sony is going to get a LOT of advertising/press/name recognition for their working with Pottermore. People will know about Sony soon. And if the articles saying the only way to get the Harry Potter eBooks in 2011 is bundled with a Sony, then Sony will sell more in the USA.
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Agreed, he seems to be on quite a crusade against Amazon.
No, I am against eBooks that are available in only one format with no forward look to getting them in other formats.

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Come on Jon. Get Calibre and convert. Not everyone can't publish their books for your needs.
Why can't the author make sure his/her eBooks are available in ePub as well? It sends the wrong message to to potential customers. And there are a lot of people out there who do not format convert. It's either available int he format they use or it's not available. This is not just about me. Sure, I can convert. But I don't want to be FORCED to pay amazon for any eBook. If I do, it's going to be because I want to.
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But no complaints when a book comes out only on your beloved Sony and not for any other reader for several months.
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All of the SW ePub files I have seen have the text colour hardcoded to black, so if you try to switch to a night-time mode the text vanishes. Is this the fault of the uploaders, or a 'feature' of the SmashWords conversion?
[Edit: If that sounded a bit snarky, it wasn't meant be be, I genuinely don't know the answer]
That is a fault of Word and is carried over by the conversion process. The problem is that Word documents contains a lot of styles that have no use whatsoever for eBooks and Calibre just carries them over. The only way to deal is to then go into the ePub and clean it up. But as the Smashwords process ends after the conversion, your stuck either dealing or cleaning the ePub yourself.

This is why I dislike Smashwords. The code that comes out can be a mess and to clean it up can be a chore.

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So as long as they keep that part to themselves, it's cool, right?
But if they don't say that then there's no way they can link to it. So that's not going to work for the author.
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Whoops, I was wrong on two points -- that you can download from Amazon directly without K4PC and that you can't tell if Amazon books have DRM in advance.

Thank you, both.
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It kinda does to me. I mean, I don't have a kindle, and many others don't, and the message I get from a kindle exclusive is "I don't care enough about you to be bothered with selling to you".
I agree with Hellmark. It does to me as well. It says that the author could not be bothered and doesn't care. Rock, what you you think if you had a lot of authors coming to MR and saying..."Here is my latest and greatest eBook. But it's only available in ePub.". Would you like that? I think not.
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But no complaints when a book comes out only on your beloved Sony and not for any other reader for several months.
I don't go looking at Amazon to see if what's come out in ePub comes out at Amazon. But, I have seen some cases where an eBook is available in ePub in the USA and not for the Kindle in the USA, but it is available for the Kindle elsewhere outside the USA. And I've seen it the other was round too.

But to be honest, if Amazon went ePub, we would not be having this discussion as the authors who put an eBook up on Amazon DRM free would be able to sell to everyone.
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I think JSWolfe should contact Sony and demand they add mobi capability so he can read the books he wants.
Sony tried that before going with ePub. It was the fault of Mobipocket/Amazon that Sony did not go with Mobipocket.
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