Venting - Not photography
Sep 20, 2017 09:06:32 #
ole sarg
Loc: south florida
There is greatcost in megabytes especially in publishing
Publishers perform some 125 tasks to bring you a book
Do some research
Publishers perform some 125 tasks to bring you a book
Do some research
Sep 20, 2017 09:21:17 #
breck
Loc: Derbyshire UK
plenty of places to get E books cheap if not free, Amazon always have great bargains if you look. Choose them at leisure from home, vastly better and bigger choice, pity UK government add VAT to Ebooks, but I am more than happy with them
Sep 20, 2017 09:30:53 #
Understood; a properly published e-book has costs involved. However, just Google "How to self-publish an e-book" and you're linked to dozens of "publishers" like Smashmouth where anyone can "...bring your Word file and cover image, upload it into the company's "Meatgrinder" tool, and in a matter of minutes, you create your e-book in just about every format you'd want. You can then sell that e-book on Smashwords.com or have the company distribute it to most of the major e-book sellers..." I think a lot of these $2.99 books went that route and weren't properly edited (or edited at all) before they became available to my Kindle. In some cases I've read, a simple word check would have eliminated many errors but not even that was done.
Sep 20, 2017 09:34:20 #
breck
Loc: Derbyshire UK
plenty of top line authors books now out as Ebooks and normally all cheaper than paper books certainly on amazon, and just as many spelling mistakes on paper as in Ebooks
Sep 20, 2017 09:57:09 #
Sep 20, 2017 09:58:13 #
By the way...they have e-books as well as paper versions....depending on where you live the selection will vary.
Sep 20, 2017 10:03:55 #
I buy a lot of Kindle books from BookBub usually for $1.99 or free. And if there is audio for it, I “used to” buy it for an additional $1.99. But now all audio copies cost $7.99 and I’ll not be buying the audio anymore. Amazon is getting greedy.
Sep 20, 2017 10:04:08 #
machia
Loc: NJ
My wife gets books on her kindle for a buck . 2 years ago , for 2.99 , she got a 700 page e-book on the American Revolution for me .
But I prefer actual books . To each his own . 📚😃
But I prefer actual books . To each his own . 📚😃
Sep 20, 2017 10:59:28 #
Sep 20, 2017 11:08:42 #
fourlocks wrote:
Understood; a properly published e-book has costs ... (show quote)
Tell me the cost of applying a custom matrix onto electronic text cost... You think this is like R&R and testing used for medication is at play here? Advertisement for established authors whose book ~ end of a series ~ is expected is minimal.
Then compare that to type setting, wood, ink and what not. How can the 'electronic' setting price be justified?
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To the folks who suggested a library... The title is not available at the moment (5 libraries) book or e-book.
Sep 20, 2017 11:36:47 #
Sep 20, 2017 12:35:13 #
Agree 100%. I don't buy e-books. I go to our local second hand and charity stores and buy books for practically nothing. When through with them I donate them back to the store. Granted, you will not find the latest books there but if you haven't the books you find, so what?
Sep 20, 2017 13:09:28 #
jaycoffman
Loc: San Diego
sjb3 wrote:
Sorry, I should have done that when I posted.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
This will take you to the Science Fiction I mentioned:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_(Bookshelf)
Hope you enjoy Project Gutenberg!
http://www.gutenberg.org/
This will take you to the Science Fiction I mentioned:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_(Bookshelf)
Hope you enjoy Project Gutenberg!
Ha Ha, joke's on me. I immediately googled Project Gutenberg when I saw your first post and only after I came back did I find the link. But thanks--it looks like an excellent site. Also, I follow Book Bub too and spend from about a dollar to twelve dollars a month on their downloads and get a bunch of books--some better than others but at a reasonable price.
Sep 20, 2017 13:37:27 #
stepha11
Loc: Trail British Coluimbia
I probably have a couple of thousand SF books and magazines from 1960 on( some older back to 40s) so don't have to download. Analog almost complete from middle 60s. As I'm 86 perhaps not too many years to enjoy my collections.
sjb3 wrote:
I am a regular user of the Project Gutenberg site; free books that are in the public domain. I have been having a great time these past few months downloading hundreds of stories from the various science fiction magazines of the 50's and early 60's like Galaxy, Analog and Orbit, to name just a few. A liberal amount of novels from the same era included. They're all available for download in many different formats including (of course) Kindle.
Sep 20, 2017 13:40:17 #
stepha11 wrote:
I probably have a couple of thousand SF books and magazines from 1960 on( some older back to 40s) so don't have to download. Analog almost complete from middle 60s. As I'm 86 perhaps not too many years to enjoy my collections.
Not that I wish you to die but I hope you have a provision in your will to give those to a person that will know how to enjoy them...
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