Do you live outside the US or something? Amazon to me shows $7.99 Kindle, $7.99 Trade Paperback. Clicking your links gives $7.99 Kindle Edition as well.
Hmm..I'm over in India, and when I click on it, price comes up as $9.99 as well. Strange, never noticed that before. Heh, good thing I got that book already, it's a good one
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I was in B&N the other day checking out the Nook, and the guy at the display told me that you can download e-book editions of B&N Classics for free. Is this correct? Seems like a pretty big plus if true, but I didn't see anything stating that explicitly on the Nook website.
I know about the free Google Books--not really a selling point for me because I've checked them out and they are just horrible, with lots of errors and duplicate versions with no explanation (there's like 20 versions of The Complete Sherlock Holmes and there's no attempt to categorize them in any way).
Can anyone confirm or deny the information on the B&N Classics?
I was in B&N the other day checking out the Nook, and the guy at the display told me that you can download e-book editions of B&N Classics for free. Is this correct? Seems like a pretty big plus if true, but I didn't see anything stating that explicitly on the Nook website.
I know about the free Google Books--not really a selling point for me because I've checked them out and they are just horrible, with lots of errors and duplicate versions with no explanation (there's like 20 versions of The Complete Sherlock Holmes and there's no attempt to categorize them in any way).
Can anyone confirm or deny the information on the B&N Classics?
I think that he was mistaken.
Aside from 5 free BN classics (Dracula, Last of the Mohicans, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Little Women) that I got when I downloaded the BN Reader software for my PC, and some free stuff that you can sometimes get when you're using your nook in a BN store (I got Alice In Wonderland a couple of weeks ago), most BN Classics seem to be $4.99.
If you go to the ebook section of the BN website, there's a link for BN Classics, and none of them seem to be free.
Still, I'm happy with my nook, and thanks to my public library (and not devoting enough time to reading), I still haven't paid for any ebooks thus far.
I was in B&N the other day checking out the Nook, and the guy at the display told me that you can download e-book editions of B&N Classics for free. Is this correct? Seems like a pretty big plus if true, but I didn't see anything stating that explicitly on the Nook website.
I know about the free Google Books--not really a selling point for me because I've checked them out and they are just horrible, with lots of errors and duplicate versions with no explanation (there's like 20 versions of The Complete Sherlock Holmes and there's no attempt to categorize them in any way).
Can anyone confirm or deny the information on the B&N Classics?
I think that he was mistaken.
Aside from 5 free BN classics (Dracula, Last of the Mohicans, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Little Women) that I got when I downloaded the BN Reader software for my PC, and some free stuff that you can sometimes get when you're using your nook in a BN store (I got Alice In Wonderland a couple of weeks ago), most BN Classics seem to be $4.99.
If you go to the ebook section of the BN website, there's a link for BN Classics, and none of them seem to be free.
Still, I'm happy with my nook, and thanks to my public library (and not devoting enough time to reading), I still haven't paid for any ebooks thus far.
Junior Yank, would you mind telling me why you decided on the Nook over the Kindle?
Mainly for the epub support and (allegedly) better PDF support. To be honest I've never had hands-on time with a Kindle, though being able to actually try a nook in store is a bonus. Anyway, this kind of file support makes it easier to get stuff from other sources without having to resort to DRM-cracking shenanigans.
Also, I shop at B&N pretty often and with all things being mostly equal I'd rather support them than Amazon. It's weird to think of B&N as a scrappy underdog, though.
Not to mention I have had no problems importing any of the Project Guttenburg books on my kindle. I finally got to play with a Nook this weekend and I am happy I went with the Kindle. The overall speed of the Nook was noticably slower than the Kindle even with the update and the contrast was also lower on the Nook IMHO. I do not need PDF support so that is a non option for me.
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edited March 2010
Hey guys,
Was the Wall Street Journal discontinued on the kindle?
I was thinking of grabbing a kindle so I could easily read the Wall Street Journal on the way to work. There's no way I could read the WSJ easily while standing on a train... but a kindle would be perfect!
However when i look up the WSJ on the kindle it says "Pricing Information Not Available".
Was the Wall Street Journal discontinued on the kindle?
I was thinking of grabbing a kindle so I could easily read the Wall Street Journal on the way to work. There's no way I could read the WSJ easily while standing on a train... but a kindle would be perfect!
However when i look up the WSJ on the kindle it says "Pricing Information Not Available".
Has anyone had their Kindle automatically align text to the right? I opened up Gardens of the Moon, which I hadn't read in a while, and found that the text isn't centered, but slightly skewed towards the right.
I'm almost positive it used to be centered, and it's driving me nuts. I cannot find any instance of it happening online, and this is the only book it has happened with. It just looks weird to me now, and I can't find a solution. I even tried resetting to factory default.
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Has anyone had their Kindle automatically align text to the right? I opened up Gardens of the Moon, which I hadn't read in a while, and found that the text isn't centered, but slightly skewed towards the right.
I'm almost positive it used to be centered, and it's driving me nuts. I cannot find any instance of it happening online, and this is the only book it has happened with. It just looks weird to me now, and I can't find a solution. I even tried resetting to factory default.
It may just be something the publisher controls, like the font for certain e-books.
They really need to get these ebooks to a much lower price. Espeically with all the slates coming out that cost the same price.
Not gonna happen. Considering how little printing and shipping actually adds to the cost of a book, they've still got everything else they have to pay for, except now they add server usage into it.
Personally, I'm fine with the price. 99% of brand new books are only $10, and most every older book I want to read is somewhere between $6 and $7.
They really need to get these ebooks to a much lower price. Espeically with all the slates coming out that cost the same price.
Not gonna happen. Considering how little printing and shipping actually adds to the cost of a book, they've still got everything else they have to pay for, except now they add server usage into it.
Personally, I'm fine with the price. 99% of brand new books are only $10, and most every older book I want to read is somewhere between $6 and $7.
Sorry, I mean the devices need to come down in price. Who would pay for an ebook when they can get an ipad?
They really need to get these ebooks to a much lower price. Espeically with all the slates coming out that cost the same price.
Not gonna happen. Considering how little printing and shipping actually adds to the cost of a book, they've still got everything else they have to pay for, except now they add server usage into it.
Personally, I'm fine with the price. 99% of brand new books are only $10, and most every older book I want to read is somewhere between $6 and $7.
Sorry, I mean the devices need to come down in price. Who would pay for an ebook when they can get an ipad?
If the ONLY thing you want is an e-reader, it's obvious from your own argument that the iPad is even MORE overpriced.
And from the reviews, the consensus seems to be that the thing that the iPad is least effective as is a highly portable e-reader. It's just too heavy for most people to comfortably hold with one hand for a long period of time.
They really need to get these ebooks to a much lower price. Espeically with all the slates coming out that cost the same price.
Not gonna happen. Considering how little printing and shipping actually adds to the cost of a book, they've still got everything else they have to pay for, except now they add server usage into it.
Personally, I'm fine with the price. 99% of brand new books are only $10, and most every older book I want to read is somewhere between $6 and $7.
Sorry, I mean the devices need to come down in price. Who would pay for an ebook when they can get an ipad?
If the ONLY thing you want is an e-reader, it's obvious from your own argument that the iPad is even MORE overpriced.
And from the reviews, the consensus seems to be that the thing that the iPad is least effective as is a highly portable e-reader. It's just too heavy for most people to comfortably hold with one hand for a long period of time.
They really need to get these ebooks to a much lower price. Espeically with all the slates coming out that cost the same price.
Not gonna happen. Considering how little printing and shipping actually adds to the cost of a book, they've still got everything else they have to pay for, except now they add server usage into it.
Personally, I'm fine with the price. 99% of brand new books are only $10, and most every older book I want to read is somewhere between $6 and $7.
Sorry, I mean the devices need to come down in price. Who would pay for an ebook when they can get an ipad?
If the ONLY thing you want is an e-reader, it's obvious from your own argument that the iPad is even MORE overpriced.
And from the reviews, the consensus seems to be that the thing that the iPad is least effective as is a highly portable e-reader. It's just too heavy for most people to comfortably hold with one hand for a long period of time.
We need this for 100-200 bucks..
That or the Kindle DX. Without any ebook reader options combining excellent PDF capability with affordability, I've taken to looking at netbooks instead.
Amazon won't sit by as rivalry accelerates, Mahaney of Citi says. He expects the price of the Kindle, now at about $260, to drop. Amazon spokeswoman Cinthia Portugal declined to comment on a potential price decrease, but Mahaney suspects the price could fall to as little as $100 this year. That's a number even such would-be Apple customers as Makkar might find hard to resist.
They really need to get these ebooks to a much lower price. Espeically with all the slates coming out that cost the same price.
Not gonna happen. Considering how little printing and shipping actually adds to the cost of a book, they've still got everything else they have to pay for, except now they add server usage into it.
Personally, I'm fine with the price. 99% of brand new books are only $10, and most every older book I want to read is somewhere between $6 and $7.
Sorry, I mean the devices need to come down in price. Who would pay for an ebook when they can get an ipad?
If the ONLY thing you want is an e-reader, it's obvious from your own argument that the iPad is even MORE overpriced.
And from the reviews, the consensus seems to be that the thing that the iPad is least effective as is a highly portable e-reader. It's just too heavy for most people to comfortably hold with one hand for a long period of time.
The reviews might say the ipad is a bad ereader but all the major tech sites say the ipad is going to crush a ton of ereaders.
Believe me, we've gone round and round on this discussion. Reading on an LCD display is a lot better now than it was a few years ago, but there's still no comparison to reading on an e-ink display.
Believe me, we've gone round and round on this discussion. Reading on an LCD display is a lot better now than it was a few years ago, but there's still no comparison to reading on an e-ink display.
Oh yeah I agree and that is what is pissing me off. The fact that all these sites are saying why get an E-reader just get an iPad. It does more and only costs a little bit more.
And if you just want a reader, and don't need a big screen, then you could pay half for a piece of tech that does just what you need it to do. Sure, people are saying that the iPad is overpriced compared to ebook readers, but these people seem to be almost universally referring to the 5"-6", <$300 readers, not the larger, deluxe ones.
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That's... not exactly a fair graph. They compare the cheapest low-end version of the iPad to high-end version of other readers?
that's actually very fair; the lowest end iPad still has a much larger screen, way more RAM, and more functionality than the comparably priced e-readers it is competing against.
It just lacks eInk screen technology. That's the "tradeoff"
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That's... not exactly a fair graph. They compare the cheapest low-end version of the iPad to high-end version of other readers?
that's actually very fair; the lowest end iPad still has a much larger screen, way more RAM, and more functionality than the comparably priced e-readers it is competing against.
It just lacks eInk screen technology. That's the "tradeoff"
It's not fair because you're comparing two completely different things. As people with the 16GB iPad will soon find out, 16GB is just not enough for a tablet computer. I have a 16GB iPhone, and I would hardly consider myself app crazy. Even so, I'm constantly needing to pick and choose what I need to load onto my iPhone on a given day because there's not enough room for everything. And I imagine iPad apps are larger than iPhone apps.
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That's... not exactly a fair graph. They compare the cheapest low-end version of the iPad to high-end version of other readers?
that's actually very fair; the lowest end iPad still has a much larger screen, way more RAM, and more functionality than the comparably priced e-readers it is competing against.
It just lacks eInk screen technology. That's the "tradeoff"
It's not fair because you're comparing two completely different things. As people with the 16GB iPad will soon find out, 16GB is just not enough for a tablet computer. I have a 16GB iPhone, and I would hardly consider myself app crazy. Even so, I'm constantly needing to pick and choose what I need to load onto my iPhone on a given day because there's not enough room for everything. And I imagine iPad apps are larger than iPhone apps.
And why is 16 gigs not enough? these apps aren't clocking in at MUCH larger than their iPhone bretheren, and there are more and more good streaming options available for the space hogging media (namely video) that remove the need to have an entire library of movies stored on there.
Those 16 gigs could go a long way on a device like this.
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edited April 2010
Because 16 gigs on a dedicated ereader is fucking thousands of books. You don't need that much on a dedicated ereader so comparing that point it moot.
Look guys this is getting ridiculous. People like different things. Let's just all agree on that and stop with the "my device is better than your device" nonsense that's all over the place.
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I know about the free Google Books--not really a selling point for me because I've checked them out and they are just horrible, with lots of errors and duplicate versions with no explanation (there's like 20 versions of The Complete Sherlock Holmes and there's no attempt to categorize them in any way).
Can anyone confirm or deny the information on the B&N Classics?
I think that he was mistaken.
Aside from 5 free BN classics (Dracula, Last of the Mohicans, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Little Women) that I got when I downloaded the BN Reader software for my PC, and some free stuff that you can sometimes get when you're using your nook in a BN store (I got Alice In Wonderland a couple of weeks ago), most BN Classics seem to be $4.99.
If you go to the ebook section of the BN website, there's a link for BN Classics, and none of them seem to be free.
Still, I'm happy with my nook, and thanks to my public library (and not devoting enough time to reading), I still haven't paid for any ebooks thus far.
Cool, thanks!
Mainly for the epub support and (allegedly) better PDF support. To be honest I've never had hands-on time with a Kindle, though being able to actually try a nook in store is a bonus. Anyway, this kind of file support makes it easier to get stuff from other sources without having to resort to DRM-cracking shenanigans.
Also, I shop at B&N pretty often and with all things being mostly equal I'd rather support them than Amazon. It's weird to think of B&N as a scrappy underdog, though.
Was the Wall Street Journal discontinued on the kindle?
I was thinking of grabbing a kindle so I could easily read the Wall Street Journal on the way to work. There's no way I could read the WSJ easily while standing on a train... but a kindle would be perfect!
However when i look up the WSJ on the kindle it says "Pricing Information Not Available".
see link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Wall-Street-Journal/dp/B000FDJ0FS
Displays a price for me. I'm guessing there's a regional restriction that Canadians get screwed on.
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Edit: Upon further inspection that is the volume button.
I think it was almost completely unused.
I'm almost positive it used to be centered, and it's driving me nuts. I cannot find any instance of it happening online, and this is the only book it has happened with. It just looks weird to me now, and I can't find a solution. I even tried resetting to factory default.
It may just be something the publisher controls, like the font for certain e-books.
Not gonna happen. Considering how little printing and shipping actually adds to the cost of a book, they've still got everything else they have to pay for, except now they add server usage into it.
Personally, I'm fine with the price. 99% of brand new books are only $10, and most every older book I want to read is somewhere between $6 and $7.
Sorry, I mean the devices need to come down in price. Who would pay for an ebook when they can get an ipad?
If the ONLY thing you want is an e-reader, it's obvious from your own argument that the iPad is even MORE overpriced.
And from the reviews, the consensus seems to be that the thing that the iPad is least effective as is a highly portable e-reader. It's just too heavy for most people to comfortably hold with one hand for a long period of time.
We need this for 100-200 bucks..
The reviews might say the ipad is a bad ereader but all the major tech sites say the ipad is going to crush a ton of ereaders.
Oh yeah I agree and that is what is pissing me off. The fact that all these sites are saying why get an E-reader just get an iPad. It does more and only costs a little bit more.
that's actually very fair; the lowest end iPad still has a much larger screen, way more RAM, and more functionality than the comparably priced e-readers it is competing against.
It just lacks eInk screen technology. That's the "tradeoff"
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
It's not fair because you're comparing two completely different things. As people with the 16GB iPad will soon find out, 16GB is just not enough for a tablet computer. I have a 16GB iPhone, and I would hardly consider myself app crazy. Even so, I'm constantly needing to pick and choose what I need to load onto my iPhone on a given day because there's not enough room for everything. And I imagine iPad apps are larger than iPhone apps.
Those 16 gigs could go a long way on a device like this.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Look guys this is getting ridiculous. People like different things. Let's just all agree on that and stop with the "my device is better than your device" nonsense that's all over the place.