[LINK] ebooks in mobiles

[Tom Worthington]

At 12:24 PM 10/31/2006, Kim Holburn wrote:
>On 2006/Oct/30, at 6:28 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>
>>... e-book  format used, which is said to be based on XHTML 
>><http:// 
>>www.tomw.net.au/blog/2006/10/e-books-for-mobile-phones-and-pdas.html>. ...
>
>Don't you just need a text reader?

Point taken. Many of the free books from Mobipocket 
<http://www.mobipocket.com/freebooks/> seem to be the ones you can 
get free from Project Gutenberg <http://www.gutenberg.org>. In theory 
they should look a lot prettier when marked up, than in plain text 
from PG. In practice they look much the same.

But then what are we to make of the launch of the book "The Wayward 
Tourist: Mark Twain's Adventures in Australia", by Don Watson at 
November 15, 2006 at gleebooks in Sydney 
<http://www.gleebooks.com.au/default.asp?p=events/events4_htm#Don_Watson>?

Melbourne Uni Press list Mr. Watson, along with Mark Twain, as an 
authors of the book 
<http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/catalogue/0-522-85312-9.html>. But Mr. 
Watson seems to have written just a forward to bits about Australia 
copied from Mark Twain's book "Following the Equator".

The full text of "Following the Equator" is available free from 
Project Gutenberg 
<http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5809/5809-h/5809-h.htm>. There are 
also about thirty different print editions available via Amazon 
<http://astore.amazon.com/universalservice/search/?node=8&keywords=%22Following+the+Equator%22+Twain+&x=0&y=0>. 
These seem to only list Mark Twain as the author.

So it seems the thing to do is:

1. Find an out of print book,
2. Paste excerpts to your publishing tool 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/epublishing.shtml>,
3. Write a forward,
4. Add your name to it,
5. Sell it.



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