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Use Kindle to get longer Amazon book previews
With the advent of Amazon's free Kindle application for the iPhone and iPod touch, readers who don't want to spend the bucks for an actual Kindle device can use their mobile device to read e-books. We've been able to read ebook on mobile devices for quite a long time actually. There are/where plenty of apps for doing so on Palm and Windows Mobile devices for years before the iPhone was announced. After the iPhone App store opened there were a lot of eBook apps for it as well, currently I'm using Stanza, although previously I used the Portable Reading web app which worked very well. The tip is a good one, and I apologize for the off-topic rant, but statements like the above really drive me nuts. It is rude to all the developers, publishers, authors, and readers who have worked so hard to make eBooks a reality over the past decade and more. If it wasn't for those people the Kindle wouldn't exist, and neither would the apps for the iPhone. Making it sound like the Kindle is the only thing that validates eBooks is wrong IMNSHO. The Kindle may be making it more mainstream, but it is still a late player in the game.
Use Kindle to get longer Amazon book previews
The difference is between, currently, a few thousand books, mostly by unknown and self-published authors, available from a handful of sites, and 245,000 books available from Amazon. And it's also a difference of price: new releases - hardcovers - mostly for $10, far below what the other sites charge.
Almost Every Book?
I'm a Sony Reader owner, and I'm rooting for e-books like crazy, even Kindle versions (we need a unified standard, desperately!). |
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