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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] 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.
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