Comments on: Good news for E: ‘Publisher "stunned" by Kindle sales’ http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/29/good-news-for-e-publisher-stunned-by-kindle-sales/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:16:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Help, I am a fellow publisher http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/29/good-news-for-e-publisher-stunned-by-kindle-sales/#comment-918692 Help, I am a fellow publisher Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:05:56 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/29/good-news-for-e-publisher-stunned-by-kindle-sales/#comment-918692 I have had beaucoup email problems since June, that appear to be straightened out now. I heard from amazon digital that they would send me information on how to retrieve sales statistics on line, BUT I NEVER GOT THAT INFORMATION. Do you know the link to the sales platform? Do you know whom I can contact to find out how to get those figures? I need to pay my authors this week and have NO IDEA whom to pay. I have had beaucoup email problems since June, that appear to be straightened out now. I heard from amazon digital that they would send me information on how to retrieve sales statistics on line, BUT I NEVER GOT THAT INFORMATION.

Do you know the link to the sales platform?

Do you know whom I can contact to find out how to get those figures?

I need to pay my authors this week and have NO IDEA whom to pay.

]]> By: pond http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/29/good-news-for-e-publisher-stunned-by-kindle-sales/#comment-726546 pond Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:17:01 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/29/good-news-for-e-publisher-stunned-by-kindle-sales/#comment-726546 Well, I think the writing is on the wall now, and the future is clear: 1. Sony failed with the Reader to make the 'iPod of ebook devices' --- but Amazon succeeded. 2. Amazon's proprietary format will be the AAC of ebookdom, whether we like it or not (I don't). I hope the free-and-open zealots can code some translating software for it. 3. Ebooks have at last arrived. The Kindle is IT. Now Amazon has to hope that their suppliers can crank up the eink-screen production a lot higher than it's ever been in the past. We can all rejoice that ebooks now are here. But it's a shame that the standard is not open, and that the device itself is so closed. Well, I think the writing is on the wall now, and the future is clear:

1. Sony failed with the Reader to make the ‘iPod of ebook devices’ — but Amazon succeeded.

2. Amazon’s proprietary format will be the AAC of ebookdom, whether we like it or not (I don’t). I hope the free-and-open zealots can code some translating software for it.

3. Ebooks have at last arrived. The Kindle is IT. Now Amazon has to hope that their suppliers can crank up the eink-screen production a lot higher than it’s ever been in the past.

We can all rejoice that ebooks now are here. But it’s a shame that the standard is not open, and that the device itself is so closed.

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