Comments on: E-books, Piracy Peril or Promotional Possibilities?

By: Booger Bender

Booger Bender — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:08:41 +0000

Animated Comic books in an ebook form would be so kick ass.. hmm.. maybe i’ll make one :)

By: Free & Paid Book Reviews | The Mouse Trap

Free & Paid Book Reviews | The Mouse Trap — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:10:13 +0000

[...] E-books, Piracy Peril or Promotional Possibilities? (torrentfreak.com) [...]

By: e-Books: Promo Potential Outweighs Piracy Peril | Rights and Royalties News

e-Books: Promo Potential Outweighs Piracy Peril | Rights and Royalties News — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:24:27 +0000

[...] begins a piece weighing the perils of piracy and DRM flaunting against the potential for industry growth. This is a familiar debate going back to the RIAA vs Napster era, but here the issue is discussed [...]

By: DBW Weekly Roundup: 8/27/10 | Digital Book World

DBW Weekly Roundup: 8/27/10 | Digital Book World — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:46:39 +0000

[...] E-books, Piracy Peril or Promotional Possibilities? TorrentFreak, Ben Jones If e-book pirates are killing the industry as some people seem to believe, this free CD would have guaranteed that the book will sell badly, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. The hardcover went on sale June 20th and the e-book CD went up the same day. Yet the book was #13 on the New York Times (NYT) bestseller list for July 2nd. It had slipped a bit to #24 the next week, and then to #26 the week after. But if e-books are killing the industry, how could a niche book (book 12 in a sci-fi series) sell so well? Especially when sci-fi fans are the ones most likely to be technologically oriented, and thus more likely to read e-books? [...]

By: Big D

Big D — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:00:35 +0000

I really like this publisher. I have the ebooks but I also buy hardcovers just to support them. There are several sites that host the CDs btw. Look for them.

By: Nix Winter

Nix Winter — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:07:34 +0000

fictionwise.com is a good source for ebooks. I buy a lot of kindle books because you can read them on ipod, ipad, mac, and pc. Ebooks.com has a lot of academic works. Of course bn.com has ebooks too.

By: Aaron Fanley - E-books, Piracy Peril or Promotional Possibilities?

Aaron Fanley - E-books, Piracy Peril or Promotional Possibilities? — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:35:24 +0000

[...] Aug. 23rd, 2010 at 4:35 PM The booming popularity of e-book readers has added a new focus to the piracy debate. As with MP3s in the late 90s, and video and movie files during the last decade, the technology to read digital books has become mainstream. What does this mean for the print industry and book publishers?Source:http://torrentfreak.com/e-books-piracy-peril-or-promotional-possibilities-100822/ [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:07:50 +0000

does anyone have a good source for ebooks?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:41:40 +0000

Me I am cooler than all of you because I print Ebook with my 3D printer so I have a real book not a cheap kindle!

Next I am going to download and print myself a Benz! Ha Ha!

Also I have a 65In 4D color screen HD TV because 3D is not good enough!

(What do you mean there is no such thing as a 4D TV?)

By: me

me — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:17:00 +0000

I was very skeptical of eBook readers up until recently. I finally decided to give ‘em a try and bought a Kindle DX (DX, because I have a lot of DIN-A4 formatted technical books as PDFs, so everything with a smaller screen was not practical). Even though importing them to Europe incurs a hefty import tax, they are still affordable, IMHO.

Up until now, I’m not disappointed yet. The screen is big enough, and eInk is… well, very readable, even outside; and the battery life is (with 3G/GSM turned off) acceptable (around 2 weeks, depending on the number of page turns and the complexity of the PDFs).

The only minus so far is the Kindle’s horrible flat file system (you can put your files in folders, but that won’t show up in the Kindle’s interface, and collections are a very poor substitute to a real file system structure), but this is a software thing they may (or may not) still decide to fix with an upgrade.

What I’d wish though, is the ability to run FBReader on it. Some brave souls are hacking on that right now, so it may happen soon, if not officially, then as a hack. Of course, it’s always possible to convert almost anything to PDF or TXT (including CHM, LIT etc…), and upload that to the Kindle DX, which behaves like a regular USB stick anyway.

As to content, there are enough good torrents on the usual sites (some of them with very big collections of thousands of eBooks), and on the usual newsgroups, to last for a lifetime of reading.