Women of Power is now available at the Sony Reader Store. It’s still just 99 cents. Pick up your copy by following the link: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/86413
Women of Power: Now Available at the Sony Reader Store
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Bluefire Reader App for iPad
If you are like me, a Sony EReader fan who moved over to iPad, you may have had a problem reading your old books on your new device. Enter Bluefire Reader. It reads Adobe DRM, so you can read books bought at Sony, Kobo, Borders, and a lot of other ebook sources (but not Amazon or B&N). You can also use it to read ebooks from the library and it has built in support from Feedbooks (where you can download my free books) and other online ebookstores. Best of all– it’s free. Ket it and ad one more blade to the techie Swiss army knife that is the iPad.
All New Reader Store
Friday December 11th, Sony and Borders reopened their ebook store, now dubbed the reader store. It has pretty much the same features that it had before, plus new lower prices on best sellers. Best of all, Sony has gone with the Epub book format. This brings us one step closer to having a universal ebook format. Now if only Amazon would get the Kindle on board. It would be great to buy books wherever you wanted, rather than being tied to a single site based on your hardware. We went through the same thing in the early days of computers. You used to have ten different versions of each program for all the computer types out there.
Barnes and Noble Nook
And speaking of Barnes and Noble, they just announced their own ebook reader, the nook. It has an eink screen like the Sony and the Kinndle, but also a color touch screen like the iphone. You can read more about it here.
Sony Walkman
The Sony Walkman is back, this time as an mp3 player. I just got an 8 gig player, the same one seen above. I got it at Walmart for about $90, and I love it. Along with MediaMonkey it is a great music system.
Library of Alexadria Update
Well, back in march I blogged about my intention to build my ebook library up to the level of the famed library of Alexandria– 50,000 books. I’m not there yet, but I just passed 2000 ebooks*. Coincidentally this happened on the same day that Google announced it will begin selling ebooks to be read online. They have said that they don’t see ebooks tied to a specific device. I hope this doesn’t mean they won’t be available for ereaders, because if that is the case, I think they are missing the boat. If you are a reader and you haven’t tried a Sony PRS or a similar device, you should.
* During the same period, I’ve read 18, but my “to be read” list is really growing.
The Immediacy of Technology
One of the greatest advantages of all the technology we have around us is our immediate access to our cultural reference material. On several occasions now I have seen authors speaking about their books on television, logged onto the Sony eBook Store and purchased and downloaded their book into my Sony Reader before their interview was over.
The other night, I was watching Terminator: The Sarah Conners Chronicles and heard a wonderfully Scottish song “Donald, Where’s Your Trousers”. I logged on to Amazon to find five or six versions of the song, listened to the samples of them, and purchased (for only 99 cents) the song as sung by The Kerry Boys. I’ve been listening to it all morning as I blog. You can listen to a sample here if you are interested.
Incidentally, today marks the 8th month anniversary of this blog. Yea!
My eBook Library Reaches 1500
My ever-expanding eBook library has reached 1500 volumes and continues to grow. Fictionwise, my secondary source to purchase eBooks has had a 50% rebate special, so I’ve bought several new books about publishing. In addition I’ve added quite a few public domain offerings from Manybooks, Feedbooks, Munsey’s, and MobileRead Forums.
Some of my most recent titles are: An Egyptian Princess by Georg Ebers, The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy, and Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Library of Alexandria
I have always loved books. In our house, we have a bookshelf (at least one) in every room, including most of the closets. Though I’ve given away most of the paperback books that I’ve read over the years, I love keeping my books, rereading them, looking at them, and smelling them. This may sound weird to you non-bibliophiles, but true book-lovers know of which I speak.
Now that I’m into eBooks, I’m trying to build an impressive eBook library. I’ve added a few books almost every single day. I try to download at least one book a day from Manybooks, Munsey’s, and Feedbooks; and download several from Mobile Read Forums. I check the Finding Free Ebooks blog and the Ebooks Just Published blog every day. Plus I buy books from various eBook sellers– notably the Sony eBook Store and Fictionwise. As yet, I’ve spent less than $100.00.
My goal is to have a library to rival the fabled library of ancient Alexandria. It is supposed to have had up to a million scrolls, representing tens of thousands of books. Call it 50,000 for a nice round number. I’ve got a way to go. I just passed the 1250 mark.
The Ease of eBooks
A great deal has been written about how easy it is to purchase and download a book on the Amazon Kindle. The Sony PRS Reader is only slightly less convenient in this regard. On more than one occassion I have seen a book being discussed on TV, went to my computer and purchased it, and then connected the Reader and transfered the book to it before the discussion was over. This week I got an add for a book by email, looked for the book online to see if it was available in eBook form (it was), and then purchased and downloaded it. This may not be the most compelling reason to buy an eBook Reader, but it is so nice, not to have to wait to go to the bookstore or the library to get the book you want.
City of Amathar 