Content Lord of the Rings Now Available! KINDLE, EPUB, PDF, LIT, and MOBI - Page 22

Buran · 06-10-2009, 06:36 PM

I checked my records and that's what I paid for it when I bought it when it was announced on the Kindle Blog.

Skydog · 06-10-2009, 06:49 PM

It's been on my watch/wish list since it became available and it was a little over $14 until this week. It dropped to that not long after its release.

mkr · 06-10-2009, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skydog

I just noticed the LOTR price has been increased to $15.94. I wonder if this is related to the release of a corrected version or is it simply a price increase?

Hmm.

nope. the book is still messed up. it's just a more expensive mess now.

Skydog · 06-10-2009, 09:17 PM

Thanks for the update, mkr.

oncdoc · 06-11-2009, 12:23 AM

can some one tell me when the corrections are done?

Damætas · 06-23-2009, 07:35 AM

(bump)

poohbear_nc · 06-23-2009, 08:43 AM

Since folk are FINALLY getting corrected copies of H2G2 and The Stand dropped onto their Kindles, after over a year or so, it might be some time before corrected Tolkien editions appear.

Buran · 06-23-2009, 09:49 AM

That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep complaining. Why can't they just convert one of the working editions?

poohbear_nc · 06-23-2009, 12:44 PM

Just spotted this on the Kindle Discussion Boards today:

http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/for...x3QZW1VBHRX5DA

a report that the sample for LOTR trilogy appears corrected. I wonder if original purchasers will be getting new downloads - as has happened for H2G2 and The Stand?
Or have to go through the rigamarole of returning & repurchasing?

sirbruce · 06-23-2009, 01:54 PM

I've deleted and redownloaded and there's still no change here.

susan_cassidy · 06-23-2009, 01:56 PM

I just sent an email to Kindle Support asking what the policy on corrections is. It would be really stupid to not allow people to download the corrected version. One of the cool things about ebooks is that you could easily give people a corrected version. I've gotten corrected versions from books published through the Amazon DTP, but it seems the more mainstream books keep a revision history, and you get the original version you bought (based on reports from buyers on forums). That's just crazy, in my opinion. Especially since the page for the book never gives a revision number, or any way to tell if errors have been corrected.

Sporadic · 06-23-2009, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Since folk are FINALLY getting corrected copies of H2G2 and The Stand dropped onto their Kindles, after over a year or so, it might be some time before corrected Tolkien editions appear.

Yeah, I turned on my wireless and found The Stand at the top of my list after "items downloaded"

pdurrant · 06-23-2009, 03:41 PM

I've just downloaded the single volume Lord of the Rings from Fictionwise. It's now more highly compressed, 2.4MB instead of 2.8MB

There are five new images in the file, being the map of western middle earth - overview and four quarters. Still no pages from the book of Mazarbul, and they're still greyscale but in RGB JPEGs. Still at least the maps are there now.
Oddly enough, the quarters are different sizes, from 468x641 up to 601x823.

The text encoding has changed a lot. Oddly, it's still not standard throughout the text - sometimes named entities will be used, sometimes numeric entities, and sometimes the plain character.

Unfortunately, textual errors remain. In the "Note on the Text", Éowyn is truncated to just É. There's still a weird gamma character towards the end of "The King of the Golden Hall"

Some text has been fixed. Dúnedain no longer causes text to be dropped after the ú. "give him strength" has been added back in. They've added back in a missing accent on two instances of Dúnedain

There are some new errors. In the Appendicies, three instances of a curly apostrophe have changed to a straight apostrophe.

The index is now there, with page numbers to some paper version, with the advice to use the search feature of your ebook reader.

The Mobipocket Edition text at the end has changed from March 2009 to May 2009.

So - it's a lot better. But not perfect. And I haven't even read it yet - this is just from a comparison of the old and new text.

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Just spotted this on the Kindle Discussion Boards today:

http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/for...x3QZW1VBHRX5DA

a report that the sample for LOTR trilogy appears corrected. I wonder if original purchasers will be getting new downloads - as has happened for H2G2 and The Stand?
Or have to go through the rigamarole of returning & repurchasing?

sirbruce · 06-23-2009, 04:11 PM

Even this "May 2009" version is not available on Kindle as far as I can tell.

mkr · 06-23-2009, 04:21 PM

i checked the sample...looked ok (yeah, Eowyn is truncated, ironically, in the notes on the text, but i can live with that). anyway, i went ahead and finally bought the kindle edition. the missing text in shadow of the past is restored. the maps are there, etc. it's probably not perfect, but i think it looks pretty good at first glance. time to read!

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06-10-2009, 06:36 PM	#316
Buran Geek Posts: 190 Karma: 471136 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Brentwood, MO Device: Kindle Oasis Waterproof 32GB 3G (without offers)	I checked my records and that's what I paid for it when I bought it when it was announced on the Kindle Blog.

06-10-2009, 06:49 PM	#317
Skydog Wizard Posts: 2,286 Karma: 7409537 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Circling Earth @ Mach .83 Device: Elipsa 2E, Sage, Libra Colour, Libra 2, Clara 2E, Oasis3, Voyage	It's been on my watch/wish list since it became available and it was a little over $14 until this week. It dropped to that not long after its release.

06-10-2009, 09:17 PM	#319
Skydog Wizard Posts: 2,286 Karma: 7409537 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Circling Earth @ Mach .83 Device: Elipsa 2E, Sage, Libra Colour, Libra 2, Clara 2E, Oasis3, Voyage	Thanks for the update, mkr.

06-11-2009, 12:23 AM	#320
oncdoc Addict Posts: 299 Karma: 300 Join Date: May 2009 Device: kindle, pocket pro	can some one tell me when the corrections are done?

06-23-2009, 07:35 AM	#321
Damætas Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 152 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle 2	(bump)

06-23-2009, 08:43 AM	#322
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,603 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Since folk are FINALLY getting corrected copies of H2G2 and The Stand dropped onto their Kindles, after over a year or so, it might be some time before corrected Tolkien editions appear.

06-23-2009, 09:49 AM	#323
Buran Geek Posts: 190 Karma: 471136 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Brentwood, MO Device: Kindle Oasis Waterproof 32GB 3G (without offers)	That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep complaining. Why can't they just convert one of the working editions?

06-23-2009, 12:44 PM	#324
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,603 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Just spotted this on the Kindle Discussion Boards today: http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/for...x3QZW1VBHRX5DA a report that the sample for LOTR trilogy appears corrected. I wonder if original purchasers will be getting new downloads - as has happened for H2G2 and The Stand? Or have to go through the rigamarole of returning & repurchasing?

06-23-2009, 01:54 PM	#325
sirbruce Provocateur Posts: 1,859 Karma: 505847 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Columbus, OH Device: Kindle Touch, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, iPhone 3GS	I've deleted and redownloaded and there's still no change here.

06-23-2009, 01:56 PM	#326
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	I just sent an email to Kindle Support asking what the policy on corrections is. It would be really stupid to not allow people to download the corrected version. One of the cool things about ebooks is that you could easily give people a corrected version. I've gotten corrected versions from books published through the Amazon DTP, but it seems the more mainstream books keep a revision history, and you get the original version you bought (based on reports from buyers on forums). That's just crazy, in my opinion. Especially since the page for the book never gives a revision number, or any way to tell if errors have been corrected.

06-23-2009, 04:11 PM	#329
sirbruce Provocateur Posts: 1,859 Karma: 505847 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Columbus, OH Device: Kindle Touch, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, iPhone 3GS	Even this "May 2009" version is not available on Kindle as far as I can tell.

06-23-2009, 04:21 PM	#330
mkr Member Posts: 12 Karma: 20 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: Kindle	i checked the sample...looked ok (yeah, Eowyn is truncated, ironically, in the notes on the text, but i can live with that). anyway, i went ahead and finally bought the kindle edition. the missing text in shadow of the past is restored. the maps are there, etc. it's probably not perfect, but i think it looks pretty good at first glance. time to read!