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firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote2011-04-23 12:08 pm
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e-books and bookstores

Kristine Kathryn Rusch suspects that several big publishers are seriously underreporting e-book sales on their authors' royalty statements, and probably print book sales as well.
http://kriswrites.com/2011/04/20/the-business-rusch-royalty-statements-update/

A Different Light, gay bookstore in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco, is closing.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/04/23/MNKN1J3RJJ.DTL

I want to support my local non-chain bookstore, and I want to limit the number of physical books I buy. My bookstore offers e-books through Google Books, and I bought one. The iPod interface for Google Books leaves something to be desired though. The biggest PITA is that there's no bookmark feature.
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[personal profile] laughingrat 2011-04-23 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
That's really surprising about the lack of bookmarking. Weird!
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[personal profile] trixtah 2011-04-24 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
A Different Light is CLOSING???!! D:

[identity profile] bunnybutt.livejournal.com 2011-04-23 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Lack of orientation lock irritates me more than lack of bookmark feature. If you can import your google books into ibooks, you can bookmark but not lock orientation. Neither can be that hard to implement. I hate that kindle reader is still the best experience.
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[personal profile] firecat 2011-04-23 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
My favorite reader is Stanza. I think it has an orientation lock.

[identity profile] bunnybutt.livejournal.com 2011-04-23 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
No orientation lock on stanza that I can find (or bluefire, either). Maybe I'm too dense to find it - can you tell me where it lives?
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[personal profile] firecat 2011-04-24 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
On Stanza, hit the middle of a book page to bring up menus, hit the ... at the bottom right corner, and it's "Book Rotation". It's confusing because there's a padloc icon next to Book Rotation, and it shows not what the current setting is, but what the setting WILL BE if you touch it.

[identity profile] bunnybutt.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, this has me very excited and now I must move all my books on all my non-kindle readers (don't laugh) to stanza. Wow.

[identity profile] juliansinger.livejournal.com 2011-04-23 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Wtf A Different Light closing? I'm startled. And dismayed. And 3,000 miles away, but it still /matters/.

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[identity profile] abostick59.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
If Kris Rusch said that the sun rises in the east, I'd get a compass and check it myself.
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[personal profile] firecat 2011-04-24 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. Thanks for the calibration.
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