Mike Cane's Tumblr: ePub Is Not Universal, So Stop The BS
Preach it!
There are currently three forms of ePub now:
1) ePub from Apple iBooks
2) ePub from Barnes & Noble
3) ePub from Sony/others (which includes public libraries)ePub from Apple works only on Apple devices.
ePub from Barnes & Noble works only on the Nook and Nook apps.
ePub from Sony/others…
2 years ago - 
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25 Larsson's Just The Tip Of The Nordic Literary Iceberg : NPR
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From the article, you could be forgiven for thinking Nordic Literature = Crime Fiction. I just really hope publishers will understand that readers will be interested in other genres as well.
2 years ago - 1
1 FT.com / Media - Magazine circulation fails to rebound despite rise in ads
Some of these stats are really gruesome. And many of these stats are really self-inflicted wounds.
2 years ago - 1
1 You can say many cranky things about Amazon, but when it comes to Kindle, I have never had a problem with customer service. I have a problem with a book or the device itself and I can reach a person and get a solution within a few minutes most of the time. I’ve purchased children’s books and realized they were formatted horribly - full refund and the book was removed from my account within an hour. I purchase a book accidentally - same thing. My Kindle II: Matzoh edition, which I purchased refurbished, developed a problem with repeated crashes and they sent a new one with next-day shipping. The Kindle customer service is freaking amazing considering how dominant the device has become.
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books | Romance Novel Reviews | Come for the Dominican Bitches, Stay for the Man Titty | Customer Service is a Ruthless Business (via mikecane)
I wonder how many readers out there are like me and don’t have much interest in a color/touch screen Kindle. The books I read are pretty much black and white, and those with color elements that I do purchase (e.g. art books) are of the type that are fairly pointless to buy as ebooks. As to the touch screen, I don’t see a whole lot of use for it beyond being able to swish your fingers over the screen and attempt to believe that you’re recreating the mechanical experience of turning the pages of a book.
At any rate, I’m one of those people who likes the idea of a dedicated ereader. Multitasking is overrated, and just because we can build a device that can play music and display books and wash your car all at once doesn’t mean we should.
Don’t Really Care About Touch Screens or Color | Conversational Reading (via mikecane)
Pretty much how I feel right now, though I would change my mind immediately if engineers figured out a way to make e-readers clean bathrooms.
2 years ago - 1
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And no iPad?
Jeff Koterba / Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald
BEST eBook cartoon EVAR!!!
Advertising - Barnes and Noble Plans Big Push for Nook E-Reader - NYTimes.com
In the end, there will be only two eInk devices left standing: the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook. K format eBooks versus B&N-flavored ePub eBooks.
2 years ago - 1
1 It’s true: On Amazon.com, you can only send a printed book to someone as a gift. Amazon deftly sidesteps this issue on their Kindle gift support page, but the bottom line is that you cannot directly purchase a Kindle book for anyone but yourself. The closest you can come to giving someone a Kindle book is to send them an Amazon gift certificate and then tell them which book to buy — which is awkward, convoluted, and a bit obnoxious.
That process feels less like a gift and more like a command.
Why can’t you give Kindle books as gifts? - CNN.com (via mikecane)
2 years ago - 2
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