11-24-2007, 05:29 PM | #16 | |
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11-26-2007, 06:11 PM | #17 |
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Monday, November 26th
91,852 Kindle books available.
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11-27-2007, 08:13 AM | #18 |
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I was curious myself, so I see 92,221 showing today. At least 20 pages of those are pre-releases...
Edit: They're playing games. Five minutes later, they show 91,938, and sorting by pub date doesn't show all those pre-releases. Last edited by azog; 11-27-2007 at 08:17 AM. |
11-29-2007, 06:56 PM | #19 |
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92,694 current
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12-01-2007, 02:40 AM | #20 |
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In last couple of days, amazon has added more than 800 kindle edition ebooks. However, here is disturbing story about how they are distributed among different categories: http://www.kindlenews.info
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12-01-2007, 10:49 AM | #21 |
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don't forget that any joe can now publish books....and this will be added to the Kindle list.
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12-01-2007, 06:56 PM | #22 |
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percenage or books
Of the twelve I've tried, only two were in Kindle form. I kind of expected that with 92,000, wow, anything i wanted would be kindleable.
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12-11-2007, 10:04 PM | #23 |
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12-11-2007, 10:41 PM | #24 |
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The number of available ebooks is irrelevant. What is relevant is what ebook are available that you actually want. Before you purchase a reader of any kind, go look at the various online shops and see what you find and then make your choice. Without the content, the reader is just a doorstop.
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12-12-2007, 07:04 AM | #26 | |
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Besides the same forces affect every other e-book reader as well. In fact, for the health of the industry overall, I would track the multi-format offerings at Fictionwise and the other vendors not tied to a specific unit. |
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12-12-2007, 07:53 AM | #27 |
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Do we really want ebook vendors playing these kinds of number games? Adding content for content sake, no matter what the editorial control?
For example, any ebook vendor can add tens of thousands of "titles" to their catalog by picking up self-published books published by the likes of Xlibris or iUniverse from LSI. But these titles are typically so poor that you will find multiple spelling errors on every page. There is zero editorial control. By focusing on the amazon title counts, which by the way do include tons of self-published items, are we forcing every ebook vendor to compete with these numbers by adding a lot of muck that is not worth reading? Just a thought. |
12-12-2007, 09:04 AM | #28 |
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I was looking at the Kindle store this morning, and sorted them by publishing date and was surprised that there weren't a lot more self-published books there. Although there were a number of classics available elsewhere for free, most were good solid books. Also some of the apparently self-published books actually looked interesting.
I've read though that you can't preview the self-published books by reading the first chapter, that's disappointing if true. |
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The titles may look very interesting. But your interest soon dissipates as you find the writing is pure gibberish with 2 to 5 spelling errors on each and every page. I'm not saying every single one is like that, but I have investigated some of these books and a goodly percentage really are that bad. |
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12-14-2007, 09:12 AM | #30 | |
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And I do expect a lot of the self-published stuff is trash (more the pity that they don't have preview chapters) but there's bound to be some gems in there. One I saw that interested me was "A Warlock's Words" by Ben Ezzell, I might just give something like that a chance based on the description. I'm assuming that he's self-published but again, don't actually *know* it. http://www.amazon.com/A-Warlock%2527...7640513&sr=1-4 |
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