Comments on: Feedbooks’ new Kindle library of classics and CC works is bliss for K-owner Mary Minow—plus iLiad and FBReader info http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/19/feedbooks-new-kindle-library-of-classics-and-cc-works-is-bliss-for-k-owner-mary-minow-plus-iliad-and-fbreader-info/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:01:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Hadrien http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/19/feedbooks-new-kindle-library-of-classics-and-cc-works-is-bliss-for-k-owner-mary-minow-plus-iliad-and-fbreader-info/#comment-666041 Hadrien Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:33:24 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/19/feedbooks-new-kindle-library-of-classics-and-cc-works-is-bliss-for-k-owner-mary-minow-plus-iliad-and-fbreader-info/#comment-666041 Upcoming features for the Kindle Guide: - Update link: you'll be able to update the guide for new books & authors using a link inside the guide - Lists: I really love our list feature on Feedbooks, it's a very easy way to group books together. Currently in the guide there's books by alphabetical order and authors by alphabetical order. I'll add the lists too, this way if you look for "Creative Commons" for example, you'll find all the Creative Commons books available (another example would be "Utopia", or book series like "Remembrance of Things Past") Upcoming features for the Kindle Guide:
- Update link: you’ll be able to update the guide for new books & authors using a link inside the guide
- Lists: I really love our list feature on Feedbooks, it’s a very easy way to group books together. Currently in the guide there’s books by alphabetical order and authors by alphabetical order. I’ll add the lists too, this way if you look for “Creative Commons” for example, you’ll find all the Creative Commons books available (another example would be “Utopia”, or book series like “Remembrance of Things Past”)

]]> By: Don Smith http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/19/feedbooks-new-kindle-library-of-classics-and-cc-works-is-bliss-for-k-owner-mary-minow-plus-iliad-and-fbreader-info/#comment-665373 Don Smith Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:05:52 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/19/feedbooks-new-kindle-library-of-classics-and-cc-works-is-bliss-for-k-owner-mary-minow-plus-iliad-and-fbreader-info/#comment-665373 David, I'm as frustrated as you are about the present multiplicity of ebook formats. The thing that excites me the most about the Kindle is all the discussion that it has created on the internet about ebooks and their future. I listen to the TWIT podcasts often and one of the guests recently was Jerry Pournelle, (of BYTE magazine and many science fiction books) who says: "I think the next iteration of the iPhone may be the beginning of the end of the paperback book business." He states, that most people don't buy a dedicated bookreader, but if they are "already carrying something, that is good enough to read a book on" they would consider buying an ebook instead of a paperback. Further he says "I think the paperback book industry is already in trouble". Another contributor to TWIT is Andy Ihnatko whose review of the Kindle on the Chicago Sun-Times is worth a read. The podcast that he reviewed the Kindle on really changed the other "TWIT's" attitude toward the Kindle and ebooks in general. It's people like Jerry and Andy who will create interest outside our present "ebook world" and educate and tease the general public. I feel Amazon has frightened many in the paperbook field enough in the last month that there is finally a reassessment happening in the publishing world that may bring about a move toward standardization. The important result of all this is that hopefully these advancements will keep the general public reading. We can't afford to allow our citizenry and educational systems to not have easy access to as much information as possible. David,

I’m as frustrated as you are about the present multiplicity of ebook formats. The thing that excites me the most about the Kindle is all the discussion that it has created on the internet about ebooks and their future.

I listen to the TWIT podcasts often and one of the guests recently was Jerry Pournelle, (of BYTE magazine and many science fiction books) who says: “I think the next iteration of the iPhone may be the beginning of the end of the paperback book business.” He states, that most people don’t buy a dedicated bookreader, but if they are “already carrying something, that is good enough to read a book on” they would consider buying an ebook instead of a paperback. Further he says “I think the paperback book industry is already in trouble”.

Another contributor to TWIT is Andy Ihnatko whose review of the Kindle on the Chicago Sun-Times is worth a read. The podcast that he reviewed the Kindle on really changed the other “TWIT’s” attitude toward the Kindle and ebooks in general.

It’s people like Jerry and Andy who will create interest outside our present “ebook world” and educate and tease the general public. I feel Amazon has frightened many in the paperbook field enough in the last month that there is finally a reassessment happening in the publishing world that may bring about a move toward standardization.

The important result of all this is that hopefully these advancements will keep the general public reading. We can’t afford to allow our citizenry and educational systems to not have easy access to as much information as possible.

]]>