‘No Kindle Exclusivity for Readers of Harlequin, Simon & Schuster, Random House, or Hachette Books,’ says Jane
That’s the word from the hard-working Jane at Dear Author, who’s been phoning around.
Related: Amazon loves exclusivity for Amazon Shorts—different from books, of course. Shorts, by the way, are available in PDF, HTML and plain text. I wonder when the Kindle’s AZW format will be mentioned in the guide for Shorts customers.
November 20th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
No shorts? Jason won’t be happy:
http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/07/28/jason-starrs-got-a-short-story-for-sale-on-amazon/
November 20th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Here, I’m surprised you didn’t highlight this para:
>>>Every one of our partners (Sony, Amazon, eBooks.com, etc.) will only be receiving the .epub format from us. We will not be doing any special proprietary conversions for anyone, which includes the Kindle. It will be up to each partner to convert to whatever proprietary format can handle the .epub format and or push their technology partners to update their software to read an .epub file. We expect there to be some confusion in the marketplace for awhile as the reader formats (Adobe, Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, Sony, etc.) update their software packages to render the .epub format and consumers download the new software.