[bksvol-discuss] Re: Kindle Only Books
- From: Cindy Ray <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:12:10 -0500
I think Evan posted the information on one.
On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Julia wrote:
>
> Hi.
> There is one Kindle only book, well for us anyways. The print copy is only
> available in the U.K. It's called A Matter of Pride by Linda Carlino.
> Julia
>
> On 16/08/2011 1:43 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
>> As a matter of fact, I did misunderstand your point until I reread your
>> message right after I sent my reply. Since I do have Bookshare and other
>> sources of books I have not really payed much attention to Kindle books. Are
>> there really any Kindle only books? Based on what I have seen without making
>> a point to pay attention it appears that the Kindle books I have seen on
>> Amazon and mentioned elsewhere are published in print first and then
>> published as Kindle books. An exception might be print on demand books. In
>> that case only a very few copies are printed up as they are ordered, but
>> they still can be ordered in print versions and undoubtedly used copies show
>> up in used bookstores. There are enough people around who prefer print
>> copies that I would expect that publishing print on demand books would
>> continue for the indefinite future. But then, once everyone comes to prefer
>> ebooks I suppose print books would become obsolete. I would not expect that
>> to happen for quite a few years though. If it ever does happen then I
>> suppose Bookshare will have to somehow adapt. Anyway, though, I still ask if
>> there are any Kindle only books right now. If there are I would expect that
>> they are few in number for right now.
>>
>>
>> _ _ _
>>
>> "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and
>> evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the
>> lack of evidence." - Richard Dawkins
>>
>>
>> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rogerbailey81
>>
>>
>> The Militant:
>> http://www.themilitant.com
>> Pathfinder Press:
>> http://www.pathfinderpress.com
>> Granma International:
>> http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:28 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Kindle Only Books
>>
>>
>>> That's good to know. Bookshare must have an agreement with the publisher of
>>> that book. However, my point was that, unless Bookshare has an agreement
>>> with the publisher of a Kindle only book, then there's no way for the book
>>> to be scanned for the collection. Which means that you could have a growing
>>> number of books from publishers who do not donate to Bookshare, with no way
>>> of getting them into the collection. Up until now, the way things worked
>>> was that if you get ahold of a book, any book, and it wasn't already in the
>>> collection, except for dramatic works, then you could scan it and get it
>>> into the collection regardless of whether or not Bookshare had a
>>> relationship with the publisher. That may no longer be the case. For a
>>> Kindle only book, unless I'm missing something, the only way for it to get
>>> into the collection is for Bookshare to get it from the publisher.
>>> Evan
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey"
>>> <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:02 PM
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Kindle Only Books
>>>
>>>
>>>> I keep track of the books I am reading at Good Reads. I want to select the
>>>> exact edition of the book I am reading, so I usually look it up on Good
>>>> Reads by ISBN. If it does not have an ISBN I look it up by title and
>>>> author and browse the results until I find the one that most closely
>>>> matches what I am reading. One book I downloaded from Bookshare was a
>>>> publisher quality copy of Kahawa by Donald E. Westlake. When I entered the
>>>> ISBN into Good Reads' search engine I got no results. I then started
>>>> searching by title and author. When I browsed the results I found one with
>>>> a matching ISBN after all. When I looked at the detail page for the book I
>>>> was surprised to find out that it was labeled as a Kindle edition. That
>>>> tells me that there are already Kindle editions in the Bookshare
>>>> collection.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _ _ _
>>>>
>>>> "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think
>>>> and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because
>>>> of, the lack of evidence." - Richard Dawkins
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rogerbailey81
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Militant:
>>>> http://www.themilitant.com
>>>> Pathfinder Press:
>>>> http://www.pathfinderpress.com
>>>> Granma International:
>>>> http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:33 PM
>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Kindle Only Books
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just encountered my first Kindle only book yesterday. I'm wondering if
>>>> others here have seen any of these. With electronic books now outselling
>>>> hardcovers, it seems that this may become a growing trend. Why spend all
>>>> that money on paper, ink and shipping when you can just send out
>>>> electronic bits instead for a lot less money, and more quikly besides?
>>>>
>>>> Why am I posting this here? Because, unless Bookshare has agreements with
>>>> publishers, then there's no way for these Kindle only books to get on
>>>> Bookshare. So we could be in a situation where an increasing number of
>>>> books will be published in a way that will make it impossible for them to
>>>> be added to Bookshare. The one I saw said that TTS was enabled, but that
>>>> is often not the case with Kindle books in general. So what happens with a
>>>> Kindle only book with TTS disabled and there's no print version to scan
>>>> for Bookshare?
>>>>
>>>> I presume that Bookshare knows about these books, so perhaps I'm worrying
>>>> over nothing. I hope so.
>>>>
>>>> Evan
>>>>
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