false 710215 320732 Jacqueline Lichtenberg female The United States 12/2007 12/2009 46 34 33 true 5693853 read 1 true 1434510 currently-reading 0 true 1434509 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/26543-what-kind-of-e-reader-do-you-use http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1198449772p2/710215.jpg 710215 Jacqueline http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1198449772p2/710215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/710215-jacqueline Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:54:08 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/203448-reading-on-the-kindle-in-public http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/groups_nophoto-50x66.jpg 710215 Jacqueline http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1198449772p2/710215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/710215-jacqueline Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:03:14 -0800
It doesn't really explain "what" a Kindle is, what it does, how it does it, and why you need it.

I think the people reading on a Kindle in public and explaining it to others with kibitzers looking on are probably selling the thing -- and the TV commercial is telling their friends and relatives what to give them for the holidays.

I want a Kindle. But the commercial doesn't move me at all.

Anyone had a different impression from the commercials? (or maybe you didn't realize the commercial you were watching was actually for a Kindle?)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/710215-jacqueline http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1198449772p2/710215.jpg 710215 Jacqueline http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1198449772p2/710215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/710215-jacqueline Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:51:35 -0800
Yeah, this is the sweet-spot time of year in the desert!

Zetta -- I've seen that name elsewhere. Tell me about yourself?

John, of course I know Orson! Brilliant guy! Awesome books, with deep characterization.

And yes, folks, I need to spend more time on goodreads. This is a fabulous place!

Jacqueline Lichtenberg
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I've just had my Award winning trilogy, Dushau, go "Live" on Kindle, so I'm taking another look at what Amazon is doing with ebooks.

I've been an EPIC member (ebook professionals) since 2005 when my first ebook editions came out on fictionwise, and a SFWA member much longer than that.

Free chapters etc on jacquelinelichtenberg.com or just search Amazon for Jacqueline Lichtenberg.

You can find me on twitter as jlichtenberg, facebook.com/jacqueline.lichtenberg, and on LinkedIn as Jacqueline Lichtenberg. And of course Goodreads though I haven't gotten my author's page up to date.

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simegen.com/jl/]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/199808-give-me-the-breakdown-on-the-ebook-experience http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1196276944p2/390.jpg 710215 Jacqueline http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1198449772p2/710215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/710215-jacqueline Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:48:02 -0700 Brenna wrote: "1. Most e-books are available in PDF, HTML, DOC or RTF...which can all be read on the home computer or on almost all devices. Many other formats can be converted to use on the individual device you..."

I read e-books on my PALM TX which has a clear backlit screen about the size of an iphone or maybe a bit larger.

When I got the PALM TX (it's out-dated now) Mobipocket made the e-reader software for it, and I absolutely LOVE the Mobipocket format (there's even a Mobipocket download for iphone now). It's tame and it works, BUT...

Mobipocket doesn't support my old PALM, and they never fixed the glitch that prevents my Palm from reading PDF files correctly. *sigh* So whatever hardware you buy now may not be supported later when you need to upgrade to read newest ebooks.

I have just put my DUSHAU TRILOGY up on amazon Kindle as an experiment (what a hassle!), but I don't own a Kindle so I can't see what the formatting looks like.

When a publisher put 2 of my books on fictionwise, I had to buy an e-reader and chose the PALM TX and at fictionwise's recommendation, Mobipocket software.

Apparently, Amazon is moving to make Kindle files readable on other devices but I haven't explored those options to see if I can download Dushau's Kindle version to my Palm without scrambling the formatting.

I would recommend anyone exploring the e-book world to start with fictionwise.com and read their tutorials. Fictionwise offers almost all formats, and Mobipocket, and STORE your ebooks for you (and there are lots of free book offers, too).

Then if you later get a new reading device and need a different software format, you don't have to pay for the book over again. You go to fictionwise.com and download your books from your own library in the new format you need. I don't know if Kindle offers that, but it sounds like they might.

The confusing thing about e-readers is that it isn't the hardware that does it -- it's the software you download, install, and configure for your device. So pick your software first, then find hardware that it can run on.

Also, with Mobipocket, you need a PC and the Mobipocket PC client installed and configured (maybe not with the newest versions though). You connect your PC to the internet, download the e-book you want, then open that e-book file with Mobipocket on your PC, THEN plug in your reading device to your PC and upload the transformed file to your reader.

Amazon eliminated all that hassle with Kindle, which is why Kindle editions are reaching more people, and why I now (after the price drops etc) want to make even some new titles of mine available on Kindle.

E-books are still an experiment in how to reach the most readers and make it easy for them. But you are right that the BEST Paranormal Romance is moving to E-book, and I expect the best of almost everything else to be exclusively e-book before long.

I've been writing about that on aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com for some months now as I have been watching the e-book field evolve via EPIC's various discussion lists.

One caveat for writers though, Kindle is really easy to hack and really easy to grab whole runs of titles and put them out on torrent and similar peer-to-peer sharing. Just google Kindle torrent e-books.

As noted on this thread, that is totally illegal.
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