04-12-2009, 04:09 PM | #1 |
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How purchase Kindle books w/o Kindle or Ipod?
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is now available for the Kindle, but not yet on Mobipocket, where I usually get books for my BeBook.
I know the book will end up on the torrents in probably just a few hours, but I want to support the author, so want to actually pay for it (before I break the DRM to be able to read it on my device.) I don't have a Kindle, an Ipod or an Ipod Touch. Is it possible to purchase a Kindle book and just download the file? Thanks |
04-12-2009, 04:28 PM | #2 |
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Sorry, you need a Kindle or iPhone or iPod Touch to purchase it unless it's available elsewhere (like Fictionwise or BooksonBoard).
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04-12-2009, 08:40 PM | #3 |
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Hook up with a library that offers ebooks for check out, read them on your pc
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04-12-2009, 08:45 PM | #4 |
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The issue is that the book is only available on the Kindle at the moment, so the library won't have it. I think the Doomorama is just going to have to wait until it becomes available at other retailers.
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04-12-2009, 09:01 PM | #5 |
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Best bet at this point is to get a hold of Quirk Books and ask them for other formats.
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04-13-2009, 01:27 PM | #6 | ||
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Edit: So just for fun, I went and did a quick survey of NYPL's ebook collection. I just counted English language books because it's the largest collection and it's the one most people draw from. For the sake of time, I also just counted PDF because most books are either PDF only or PDF and Mobi. Very few are mobi only. I figure this gets a best case scenario for most patrons. They had about 12K total books. 7601 non-fiction and 4320 fiction. That includes all the PD stuff. That's pretty sparse. Last edited by Alisa; 04-13-2009 at 01:44 PM. |
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04-14-2009, 04:41 PM | #8 |
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It's certainly the largest collection I've seen. You can browse the collection without being a member. You may be able to get an idea if there enough books there that you want to read. For example, when I was browsing I saw that about 1200 of the titles were romance. I don't read romance. If I did, that would be a big draw. I've gotten a fair number of mysteries through my local library. DH mostly reads sci-fi and fantasy and the selection is tiny.
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