You can read amazon books using the kindel app but voice over or tts won't read some of them, or most of them really. Good luck. On Oct 18, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Cheree Heppe wrote:
> Cheree Heppe here: > > The review of the IBooks Store referenced here appears to have no link for > anyone who disagrees with the reviewer to comment. > > This diverges from other reviewers I have recently read in which there are > separate links for those who agree and those who do not agree with the review. > > Is it true, then, that one cannot order books from Amazon or read them from > non-IBook resources while using an IPhone or IPad? > > I have gotten skeptical of reviewers. There was an IPad case made of leather > that was reviewed. But, once I saw the case myself, I could only guess that > the reviewer dry labbed the item, that is, looked at a photo, but didn't > actually test the case, but wrote a review as if he had. The details of the > review did not match the reality of the case. > > When NetBooks came out, one reviewer whined all over the Internet about how > one design placed the mouse click buttons vertically adjacent to the left and > right of the track pad, not at the bottom, the way he was used to. I don't > use a mouse, but my daughter does. She had no problem with the new > configuration and I certainly had no problem with the small footprint of the > NetBook. My guess, that one was dry labbed, too. > > Back to the IBooks Store. I guess I don't mind that Project Gutenberg is > featured there. There is nothing amiss with out-of-copyright books or with > wanting to read them. Some of the in copyright books have alterations by > editors which make them worse than abridged copies of the original texts. > > The rest, well, time will tell. But I'm not limiting myself to one outlet or > vendor, whatever one reviewer feels he has to do. > > > Regards, > Cheree Heppe > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Otten" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 20:36 > Subject: a none too flattering review of the Ibook store 6 months after launch > > > TUAW has a review of the IBooks store that doesn't have much good to say > about it, and with good reason. You will find a long list of Random > House-owned publishers whose product will not be found on the IBook store due > to Apple and Random's inability to come to terms on price. Note that nothing > was said about Voice Over as the reason. > http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/14/the-ibookstore-six-months-after-launch-one-big-failure/ > Mary Otten > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
