http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/ The eBook Community Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:37:05 GMT joseph harris http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30431 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30431 http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/24375 Aptara is to unveil eGen in London at the start of December. Joseph Harris - Debt Control Man author: Control Your Debt Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:35:20 GMT Chris http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30430 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30430 Are we looking at the same site?? http://thewikireader.com/media.html The hi-res photos, in particular, give a very clear image of the resolution on the Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:25:22 GMT Product Development Ctm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30429 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30429 [edited by TeBC moderator since its formatting made the message almost unintelligible, probably due to character set formatting incompatibilities. Hopefully it Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:22:19 GMT joseph harris http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30428 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30428 From: "Chris" ... Very well put Chris. You've made it possible for me to almost understand ;-). But I am left with a feeling that there is a big threat here Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:20:57 GMT Robotech_Master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30427 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30427 I don't know if it's just me, but the fact that there are no actual *photos* of the device on the site, just mockups, makes me a little bit suspicious. -- Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:25:32 GMT Chris http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30426 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30426 ... Ok. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page (and yes, it includes full text) ... With all the code and designs open for inspection it can get people Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:25:26 GMT Marvlous http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30425 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30425 I recently published my books on Smashwords.com available as ebooks and was wondering what they're track record was like. If any members have any knowledge of Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:25:08 GMT fynydd_beirdd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30424 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30424 Well, instead of theorizing about what might happen, I asked the people who make WikiReader (OpenMoko) about the possibility of using their device as an ebook Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:45:36 GMT Chris Smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30423 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30423 I was surprised to discover this item in the past few days, and learned that it managed to launch with very little fanfare. The designers behind this appear to Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:44:45 GMT Parvez Ali http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30422 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30422 Dear Friends, I believe that Sony supports voice and can also read out the content - can you confirm? If it does, can it do a search for the keywords if we say Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:35:13 GMT Bill Janssen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30421 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30421 ... Plucker uses a link to an out-of-spine pagelet for this, IIRC. Bill Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:53:28 GMT Paulo Ney de Souza http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30420 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30420 ... We have a substantial disagreement here. You saw the example of Bazargan. An IBM PC-XT circa 1982 was capable of producing and displaying the page as you Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:49:47 GMT jon_noring http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30419 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30419 ... Well, I was somewhat vague in the Preface section, and did say "many uses". I implied, and obviously not very well, that this reader edition is suitable Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:49:25 GMT Paulo Ney de Souza http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30418 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30418 Jon, I only commented because I read somewhere, I guess in the Intro, that the Edition was suitable for scholarly research! Maybe you meant scholarly research Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:49:53 GMT joseph harris http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30417 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/message/30417 From: "jon_noring" ... Jon, It will not have escaped your notice that I have moaned and groaned over ePub, possibly not on this list ;-). My unease is