email to sony about the connect store.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Bob Russell

Yep, exactly what I did mean! <But with tongue firmly planted in cheek, of course.>

I have seen a PDF of upcoming Star Trek books on Simon & Schuster's website before.

[Aybara]

I can totally understand about protected content problems.

I have a large collection of Palm eBooks that I can no longer read (Palm finally died), and had to buy the same books over again (what few Sony offers that Palm also offers).

What bothers me is that the Connect Store makes no sense on what books are missing.

For instance, Terry Brooks' Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series has ONE book of the three available in the store, and it is the second of the three. If Sony can get one, why can't they get the other two? They are all the same publisher.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Aybara

I can totally understand about protected content problems.

I have a large collection of Palm eBooks that I can no longer read (Palm finally died), and had to buy the same books over again (what few Sony offers that Palm also offers).

What bothers me is that the Connect Store makes no sense on what books are missing.

For instance, Terry Brooks' Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series has ONE book of the three available in the store, and it is the second of the three. If Sony can get one, why can't they get the other two? They are all the same publisher.

The solution to the problem of My ebooks are not longer readable since I switched to a different reader is one that is easy to solve from this point on. if you purchase your books in LIT format, you can use CLIT 1.8 to break the DRM or convert to HTML. Book Designer will load in the LIT file or HTML. But I prefer to direct load the lIT file. And then Book Designer can write out a number of different formats. So the chances of your being able to switch devices and keep your books is very good if you start with LIT format. I can take my LIT format, buy a Sony Reader, output LRF and if I moved to an IRex, I could output PDB for use with it. No loss.

[Cpt. Tim]

good responses all.

To an earlier question, Do i really need more content?

If that is the case do we need any more books to be written?

I'll admit my justification for spending 350 dollars was that i'd immediately own pretty much any public domain book availible on the internet. And i'll say its been awesome. And the reader is so nice that i want to make it my primary way of reading books. I can now read books without the physical waste of paper.

But content is still an issue. yes, i still need to go through all of the sherlock holmes stories. I need to finish heroditus' histories. I need to get around to reading the antichrist.

But if i want to read the first book in the dune series? another classic? i have to go get it on paper before i can read the rest of the dune books which are availible on the connect store.

None of the arthur c clark i wanted is availible either, i was hoping to read songs of distant earth again. yes theres a lot i could read. amazing stuff. stuff thats better than some of the junk food fiction i want to read (any modern fiction author can be seen as junk food next to the classics.) but if i'm not in the mood for those things, and have to read them because what i want at the moment isn't availible, i see that as settling.

I don't really see it as too nit picky because one or two books i want to read are absent from the sony store, as much as its hard for me to find anythinig i want to read there.

I did get a response, by the way. It was just a reiteration of what was listed in the FAQ, even though what i asked for was an elaboration. Sony employee skim email. Sony employee push button.

[JSWolf]

The solution is to find the books you want in LIT format and then use CLIT to break the DRM or convert to HTML and then use Book Designer or html2lrf to convert to LRF and then you'll have the books you want. I've been doing that for some Star Trek books I recently bought in LIT format. Works wonderfully.

[Cpt. Tim]

i find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Thanks! i'm definitely going to look into that, its a little bit of work, but i've never been against doing a little extra work to get more enjoyment out of a gadget.

EDIT:

another HUGE annoyance. A bundle that includes the first and last book of a trilogy, with the second unavailible.

jesus.

[Aybara]

Originally Posted by Cpt. Tim

i find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Thanks! i'm definitely going to look into that, its a little bit of work, but i've never been against doing a little extra work to get more enjoyment out of a gadget.

EDIT:

another HUGE annoyance. A bundle that includes the first and last book of a trilogy, with the second unavailible.

jesus.

That is one of my complaints. One of the series I'd like has the middle book only.

[dhbailey]

Contact the publishers as well as the Connect store -- it may be the publishers who are not releasing the other books, not Connect which has decided arbitrarily to sell only parts of sets.

The publisher may be bringing out new printings of those missing books. Even in the paper world, I've discovered an author who is new to me but who has a backlog of many books (Martha Grimes was one such author) that when I went to order some of the earlier books was told "They haven't been released yet." What that meant was that the original printing(s) was sold out and a new printing was being prepared but hadn't been made yet. Sometimes that means completely re-entering the original text since it hadn't been done on a computer originally.

That might be the case with the missing books in those series.

But in any event, don't just make your dissatisfaction known to Connect, you should also let the publisher know AND try to contact the author and let him/her know so that he or she can put pressure on the publisher to rectify the situation.

[Cpt. Tim]

JSWolf, i have a question about the process, i bought a book that has lots of maps as it talks aboubt biblical texts. it is in the HTML format, with the pictures seperate from it of course. How to I reintegrate those when i try to make the book a sony reader file? or if i load the pictures onto the reader will the HTML document find them on the reader?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cpt. Tim

JSWolf, i have a question about the process, i bought a book that has lots of maps as it talks aboubt biblical texts. it is in the HTML format, with the pictures seperate from it of course. How to I reintegrate those when i try to make the book a sony reader file? or if i load the pictures onto the reader will the HTML document find them on the reader?

The Reader does not handle HTML natively. That said, there is a good option for you to use. One that I have used when I made the LRF of Doctor Doolittle's Garden. I used html2lrf which is parg of Libprs500. I had to be a little bit of editing on the HTML file to clean up some things the way I wanted. But overall it handled the file with the graphics just fine. So give that a try and see what happens. I did try Book Designer at first and didn't like the way it was looking. Took less time to make it look good with html2lrf then it would have with BD.

if you want, I can go back the the thread where I posted the LRF and also post the HTML code along with the images for you to see what's what.