Smashwords.com is a very active, fast-growing ebook publisher. They also push their "Premium content out to the Apple Book Store, Barnes & Noble, Diesel, Amazon, Sony, and other ebook retailers. You can purchase a book from Smashwoords in html, .mobi, .epub, .pdf, .txt, and several other formats. Here's one fine example of Smashwords' "junk food" offerings: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/58871
Smashwords published 232 new books yesterday, and their throughput seems to be increasing daily. They just quadrupled the capacity of their "Meatgrinder" which takes the input offering, checks it for style guide compliance, and then converts it to all the supported formats. --Doug -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure I believe this, but Amazon apparently sells more ebooks than > both paperback and hardback books (105/100 ratio): > http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=15202 > http://goo.gl/0oSPk > > I've been buying all my tech books in digital format(s) and most hip tech > shops now give you 4 or more formats: kindle/mobi, pdf, epub, apk (android). > And ditto for most of my "junk food" reading: scifi etc. > > There are a LOT of formats: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats > And I'm amazed how quickly Amazon and others have provided readers for not > just the eBook devices (kindle, nook, etc) but for all computers, phones and > the iPad and other tablets. > > I certainly prefer use of my iPad to my Air for reading .. its just more > intimate. And searching is nicer than using indices as long as the reader > software is well design and the book well structured. I still HATE the lack > of page numbers, for the kindle anyway. > > I do miss "flipping thru the pages" to find something, however, and many of > the formats differ in how well they support images. But its getting there. > > I do, however, think lots more has to settle for this market to really > succeed. Apple, for example is *forcing* Amazon to sell through the > iPhone/iPad (iOS device) app rather than through Amazon's store. That sucks > and hope it fails in court. And like CDs, media theft remains unsolved. > > -- Owen > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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