E-books for the French (Canadian) market

[pholy]

Roughly speaking, he wants to know how many pages there are in a book before he purchases it. Something the ebook stores should include in the listing. He feels it is unreasonable to pay $25 for a 75 page book - I think - but that might just be a mistake on my part.

I'm sure Vcat or Zelda, or any number of others, can set us straight....

[EricGagne]

Originally Posted by pholy

Roughly speaking, he wants to know how many pages there are in a book before he purchases it. Something the ebook stores should include in the listing. He feels it is unreasonable to pay $25 for a 75 page book - I think - but that might just be a mistake on my part.

I'm sure Vcat or Zelda, or any number of others, can set us straight....

We posted almost at the same time. Check the post just before yours, I translated my original one but you got it summed up pretty well.

When you check real books on Amazon, Chapters and others they usually tell you the number of pages, there's no reason this information should not be there for eBooks.

[frozennorth]

I think a word count would be more accurate. Page count is variable depending on the font size. I noticed some pb have rather large margins also. Some smaller ebook sellers are already including this info.

[cassle]

owh!! yes, I bet it's too less pages (means less pleasure time too) for 25 bucks!!!

by the way.. I've visited jelis.ca and I think they don't accept paypal right?

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by cassle

I've visited jelis.ca and I think they don't accept paypal right?

That's what it says on the site (see étape 3 - mode de paiement)... only credit cards.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by EricGagne

Ooopppss ! Sorry, I didn't realize I posted in French in an English forum.

What I said is one thing I noticed and don't like is that informations about the books don't include the number of pages.

Just 2 days ago I bought a book on Mobipocket only to realize after that I paid way too much for a book of only 75 pages.

I think ebook stores should include that information, I think it's reasonable to know how much reading time a book will give you before paying 25$ for it.

Everyone who buys ebooks online should complain to their stores if the number of pages isn't specified.

Page count is a poor measure for eBooks. How do you count? eBook pages?, paper book pages? Which edition? What size screen? What font size? mobipocket does not even know the number of pages but counts as it goes. While I think it is reasonable to know the size of the book I do not agree that page count is the way to go. Character count, word count or something based on these values can be useful. For example FBreader uses 2048 bytes as a page and computes values based on that. ADE ePUB computes pages based on 1024 characters (which may be multibyte).

Dale

[Casca]

It's great that Sony has signed a deal for French language e-books in Canada, but it would nice if they signed a similar deal with a provider for English Canada. While it is true that the Sony store allows purchases from Canada too many books I've wanted aren't available for purchase outside the U.S. Also, their are very few "Canadian" books available which I'm sure would be solved if a Canadian provider was available. Just saying.

[Crowl]

Originally Posted by Casca

It's great that Sony has signed a deal for French language e-books in Canada, but it would nice if they signed a similar deal with a provider for English Canada. While it is true that the Sony store allows purchases from Canada too many books I've wanted aren't available for purchase outside the U.S. Also, their are very few "Canadian" books available which I'm sure would be solved if a Canadian provider was available. Just saying.

What you should hope for is that they can expand the range in the sony store since you can always visit standalone stores yourself anyway.

The partnership route is what they use in europe and there is zero integration with the actual ebook library software like you get in the states and canada, all you get is a link to a site that then opens in a browser that has basically nothing to do with sony.

[nboshart]

Originally Posted by Casca

Also, their are very few "Canadian" books available which I'm sure would be solved if a Canadian provider was available. Just saying.

Just a note, a lot of Canadian publishers are now in the process of converting their back catalogues to digital formats. You'll be seeing quite a few new titles being released as ebooks in the next few months with more to come.