Does Kindle accept Mobi book format purchased from other stores?

[EowynCarter]

Well, plenty of e-book store ?
What stores sell drm free mobi ? Bean is about the only one I can name.
Then add to this a few independant books, public domain. Not that much.

[erictoma]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

You really have to get over whatever it is you have against me.

There is nothing untrue in my signature.

I figure I type this often enough I should just add it as my signature. The Kindle is not restricted to one bookstore. There are plenty of other bookstores you can buy Mobi books that can be read on your Kindle.

Amen !

[ProfCrash]

Bristlecone Pine Press: http://www.bcpinepress.com/
Digital Book Index: http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm
EBooks Just Published: www.ebooksjustpublished.com PDF Format, sometimes free
Elisco Publishing: http://eliscopublishing.com
Fictionwise: www.fictionwise.com (select multi-format books for Kindle)
Horror-Mall: http://www.horror-mall.com/Digital-E...p-1-c-370.html more info Tor Books: www.tor.com (register, and they give away free books from time to time; also free short stories fairly often)
http://onedollarorbit.com/
Webscription (part of Baen) http://www.webscription.net

Foreign Language Websites (Non-English Smiley)
http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ebooks.php Free! (French)

EBook Blog List on Kindleboards
http://www.kindleboards.com/index.ph....html#msg26206

To start

[DiapDealer]

Perhaps someone could give me a heads-up when the Great Epub/Mobi Troll War of 2010 has ebbed slightly?

...I'd settle for people realizing that targeting individual forum members with silly,vindictive, and petty signatures is.... well.... silly, vindictive and petty.

P.S. I don't fault anyone for wanting to "set the record straight", but c'mon.

[erictoma]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Bristlecone Pine Press: http://www.bcpinepress.com/
Digital Book Index: http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm
EBooks Just Published: www.ebooksjustpublished.com PDF Format, sometimes free
Elisco Publishing: http://eliscopublishing.com
Fictionwise: www.fictionwise.com (select multi-format books for Kindle)
Horror-Mall: http://www.horror-mall.com/Digital-E...p-1-c-370.html more info Tor Books: www.tor.com (register, and they give away free books from time to time; also free short stories fairly often)
http://onedollarorbit.com/
Webscription (part of Baen) http://www.webscription.net

Foreign Language Websites (Non-English Smiley)
http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ebooks.php Free! (French)

EBook Blog List on Kindleboards
http://www.kindleboards.com/index.ph....html#msg26206

To start

Can you find in your useless sites :
"caffeine blues" eBook by Stephen Chernisk in your websites ? or "The Metabolic Plan: Stay Younger Longer" or may be "The Dhea Breakthrough" ???
can you find the best seller "Failure Is Not An Option" by the giant Gene Kranz in your smart websites ?
Even Dr Joseph Mercola books are not available wow !
"Dark Deception"
"Generation XL"
"The No-Grain Diet "
There no one single ebook by Larry King
"My Remarkable Journey" , "Anything Goes!My Dad And Me", "Remember Me When I'm Gone" ,'How To Talk To Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere " and "The People's Princess

Some titles are not even present in the very amzon store Itself
Dark Deception: Discover the Truths About the Benefits of Sunlight Exposure
Written by Dr Joseph Mercola, Joseph Herman, Jeffry

Can you find the other Dr Joseph Mercola's ebooks in Mobi format ?

1- Prostatitis: The 60-Day Cure - eBook 21.95 US $

2 -Take Control of your Health eBook 19.97 US $

3-Prostate Health in 90 Days - eBook 16.97 US $


Thanks a lot

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Foreign Language Websites (Non-English Smiley)
http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ebooks.php Free! (French)

Didn't you said "buy" ? And these are mostly public domain books.

And where are the books from the mainstream pubishers? Nowhere but amazon.

The main problem isn't really the kindle being locked to kindle store. You can find most of what you want, if you don't mind english.
It's the kindle books being locked to kindle. If you want to change and use someting else, you're out of luck. Mobi DRM is pretty bad there.... Lesser evil being adept drm.
Though in an ideal world, one format, no drm. No more headeaches.

[erictoma]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Didn't you said "buy" ? And these are mostly public domain books.



The main problem isn't really the kindle being locked to kindle store. You can find most of what you want, if you don't mind english.
being adept drm.
Though in an ideal world, one format, no drm. No more headeaches.

For a Kindle owner ,the main problem is the kindle being locked to kindle store indeed.
Since this topic is about Kindle gadget, we have to empathize that Kindle user cannot find thousands of titles for his Kindle reader without removing thousands of DRM protection ILLEGALLY.
Removing DRM is not sure 100% .

Almost all important , valuables, rare or scientific ebooks are DRM protected.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Bristlecone Pine Press: http://www.bcpinepress.com/
Digital Book Index: http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm
EBooks Just Published: www.ebooksjustpublished.com PDF Format, sometimes free
Elisco Publishing: http://eliscopublishing.com
Fictionwise: www.fictionwise.com (select multi-format books for Kindle)
Horror-Mall: http://www.horror-mall.com/Digital-E...p-1-c-370.html more info Tor Books: www.tor.com (register, and they give away free books from time to time; also free short stories fairly often)
http://onedollarorbit.com/
Webscription (part of Baen) http://www.webscription.net

Foreign Language Websites (Non-English Smiley)
http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ebooks.php Free! (French)

EBook Blog List on Kindleboards
http://www.kindleboards.com/index.ph....html#msg26206

To start

Don't all these sites also offer epubs and pdfs that are readable on NON-Kindle devices? Plus the NON-Kindle user can go to BN, Borders, Kobo, and the good old public library AS WELL?

I'm glad that Kindle users are happy with their Kindles, I really am, but I don't understand why they object so strenuously to the idea that they're "locked in." You're a lot more locked in than I am with my device that reads epubs. I can get books anywhere EXCEPT Amazon (without tinkering). You can't get books from the other mainstream booksellers (without tinkering).

Again, if you're happy with Amazon, fine. But the other "choices" you have to get books outside of Amazon are hardly compelling.

[EowynCarter]

Almost all important , valuables, rare or scientific ebooks are DRM protected.

Just out of curiosity, what books are you refering to ?

Guess it's all about what you want to read. To some peaple, the lock in is not a problem, because amazon will provide them with the books they care about. Others will be kind of annoyed.

[erictoma]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Just out of curiosity, what books are you refering to ?

Guess it's all about what you want to read. To some peaple, the lock in is not a problem, because amazon will provide them with the books they care about. Others will be kind of annoyed.

For the moment I m reading some books about Apollo moon mission, about Inca culture, about evolution theory.
next month i would read about something else quiet different.

[JSWolf]

CyberRead also supports DRMed Mobipocket.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by erictoma

I have put this signature is response to an amazon member here who had added a wrong signature, but nobody seemed appalled by his or her false signature.
as for your question, I want to add that a lot of titles are missing in amazon bookstore, so you could not find any alternative if you owned a kindle reader.

Please correct me, I m not sure 100% but can you find this book in kindle format? :

Dark Deception: Discover the Truths About the Benefits of Sunlight Exposure
Written by Dr Joseph Mercola, Joseph Herman, Jeffry

Can you find the other Dr Joseph Mercola's ebooks in Mobi format ?

1- Prostatitis: The 60-Day Cure - eBook 21.95 US $

2 -Take Control of your Health eBook 19.97 US $

3-Prostate Health in 90 Days - eBook 16.97 US $

I m waiting your answers.
Best regards

It doesn't matter. I don't want them in any format.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by erictoma

Can you find in your useless sites :
"caffeine blues" eBook by Stephen Chernisk in your websites ? or "The Metabolic Plan: Stay Younger Longer" or may be "The Dhea Breakthrough" ???
can you find the best seller "Failure Is Not An Option" by the giant Gene Kranz in your smart websites ?
Even Dr Joseph Mercola books are not available wow !
"Dark Deception"
"Generation XL"
"The No-Grain Diet "
There no one single ebook by Larry King
"My Remarkable Journey" , "Anything Goes!My Dad And Me", "Remember Me When I'm Gone" ,'How To Talk To Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere " and "The People's Princess

Some titles are not even present in the very amzon store Itself
Dark Deception: Discover the Truths About the Benefits of Sunlight Exposure
Written by Dr Joseph Mercola, Joseph Herman, Jeffry

Can you find the other Dr Joseph Mercola's ebooks in Mobi format ?

1- Prostatitis: The 60-Day Cure - eBook 21.95 US $

2 -Take Control of your Health eBook 19.97 US $

3-Prostate Health in 90 Days - eBook 16.97 US $


Thanks a lot

But why do you want to push these heath books that nobody here wants or even cares about? You are just wasting our time.

[DMSmillie]

Originally Posted by Catlady

I'm glad that Kindle users are happy with their Kindles, I really am, but I don't understand why they object so strenuously to the idea that they're "locked in."

The objection, in this thread, is more specifically to blanket statements that the Kindle "can only read ebooks from Amazon", and that the Kindle "can't read ebooks from other online bookstores".

[JeremyR]

Originally Posted by Catlady

I'm glad that Kindle users are happy with their Kindles, I really am, but I don't understand why they object so strenuously to the idea that they're "locked in."

I'm glad that non-Kindle owners are so happy with their e-readers, but I don't understand why they are trolling the Kindle forum...

Anyway, personally, I've bought more books for my Kindle from Baen and Fictionwise than Amazon itself. Is it Amazon's fault that other bookstores have chosen to use Adobe DRM?

If Amazon really wanted to lock people in, they could have made the Kindle only read files from Amazon, period.