Oct 16 2011
Kindle’s Personal Documents Service (PDS hereinafter) is Amazon’s version of sideloading. Using their servers, Amazon would accept documents mailed to a kindle.com address and convert them into a format readable by Kindle devices. According to the help page, PDS is not available for Canadian users. I have no idea why. I am sorry Canada! In [...]
Sep 27 2009
These images are the covers to ebooks from Random House, Pocket, and Berkley. I’m a big champion of ebooks, obviously, but there are all kinds of problems with ebooks from the expensive hardware to the ridiculous number of formats and DRM encryption schemes. Those are issues that publishers may not be willing to address right [...]
Dec 21 2008
I was going to post today about how to convert a file using OpenOffice but I wasn’t able to successfully do it. If I figure it out, though, I’ll post about it. Most ebooks are available in MS Lit format. I usually buy in MS Lit format but in order to get the book [...]
Dec 14 2008
For the next few weeks, I’m going to do posts on how to convert ebooks into formats that work on dedicated and multi function devices. First up is the eReader format. Both Stanza and eReader on the iPhone allow uploading of personal content but only in the eReader format. Making an eReader book isn’t hard [...]
Jun 1 2008
I know I promised to do a piece on the history of Net Neutrality legislation and what is the current state of the governmental proposals. I still intend to do that within the next couple of weeks. Today, though, is June 1, and next Tuesday, June 9, Steve Jobs will announce the release of the [...]
Apr 8 2007
EDITED: Promotion is now closed. There are 14 hours and some odd minutes left in this promotion so if you have an eBookwise or some other device that does not read PDFs, go download this program right now. You may not need the program now, but it may come in handy in the future. PDF [...]
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