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01-29-2009, 08:06 PM | #17 | |
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1. These books are ALL free on Amazon. They are charging nothing. Not even a the small $.10 delivery fee they charge when you send yourself a document. 2. These books do NOT have any copy protection on them. I just downloaded one to verify this. 3. By Amazon adding these books to their Kindle library it does not remove them from the PG site or manybooks or feedbooks or any other public domain archive. These books are STILL in the public domain. Please lets be careful with the FUD spreading. BOb |
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01-29-2009, 10:21 PM | #18 |
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I assume this is a step towards the Feb 9th announcement. Keep in mind that those of us who search the net or hang in these forums are not the average consumer. The ease of purchasing through Amazon through whispernet is one of the things that helped make the Kindle so popular.
If "100 Free Books" could help sell the Sony eReader, now the Kindle can boast "Thousands of Free Books" to promote the Kindle. |
01-29-2009, 10:25 PM | #19 | |
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I hope these always stay free. BOb |
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01-30-2009, 09:40 AM | #20 |
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Koland,
Your way of looking at the Amazon books works WAY better than my method. Thanks. (Although Mobileread is still by far my favorite free book source -- with Feedbooks 2nd.) |
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01-30-2009, 06:36 PM | #21 |
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It's an interesting move for Amazon--challenging the razor/blades paradigm. If they want to make money on hardware, it's great. If they want to make it on selling eBooks, it's questionable. Overall, though, I think it's wise for them to increase the appeal. I don't think Sony offers free Gutenberg versions from their store.
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01-30-2009, 06:37 PM | #22 | |
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01-30-2009, 06:43 PM | #23 |
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01-30-2009, 06:47 PM | #24 |
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A lot of folks actually don't like those big margins, feel they waste space that could be more profitably used to display text and the like.
The other usual complaint is font size, which is another preference thing. The most telling comment on the formatting is mainly that there's not really anything much done with the formatting: the books are largely as you can download them for free from Manybooks.net, and that being the case, many folks feel it's a bit disingenuous to charge for them. |
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I think I like their format better because all the other books I buy are like that and I love consistency. And hey, if they actually do pay for them, some of that money goes to my Alma Mater |
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01-30-2009, 08:03 PM | #26 |
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Well, it's nice to know that the Manybooks "translations" of the Gutenberg "feeds" are available at Amazon.
I like Manybooks, though. Maybe it's just a loyalty thing :-) BTW--is there a document for the Kindle that has whispernet-downloadable links to the MobileRead mobipocket books? I'd be grateful if someone could point me toward such a thing. |
01-31-2009, 11:19 AM | #27 | |
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Generally, I have no complaint about the fonts Sony uses, although I wish the base font size was equivalent to 12-point Times New Roman (not suggesting that TNR should be the font used, only setting a comparison base). I would say that of the books I have bought from Sony, I have had to increase 50% to medium and 3% to large, the rest being fine in small, in order to comfortably read. When I buy from Baen, nearly all have to be enlarged. And when I run .LIT books through Calibre, choosing 12 point is perfect every time. |
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THanks for this... always nice to get some free ebooks to read. Otherwise I'll go broke, lol!
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