E-Book Pricing Alerts

[USS Firefly]

And any discussion on how to make it happen anyway would be out-of-bounds on this board.

And what if I have a brilliant idea, like held a crowdfunding on this site and buy Amazon, so we all could buy and read those kindle books?

 

[Smiley]

Curiously, for someone whose favorite TOS episode is "I, Mudd," I did not yet have Mudd in Your Eye in my collection. That should be a fun one to revisit once I return to reading in the TOS era.

 

[dstyer]

I'm stuck on Kindle mostly cause I started my library waaaaay back in 2009.

Yeah, back when no one knew what an e-book was...

 

[youngtrek]

So S&S has published their sale list for the month, and it looks like the only one I missed in my list above is Vulcan’s Forge, for $1.99.

I always check the lists from Amazon, because I seem to have less issues finding the sale books through search with them. However, it appears I missed this one because there doesn’t seem to be a Kindle listing for this book. Even when I search it directly, I can’t find it. MA has a link to the Kindle version, but when I try it, I just get a “page not found” error.

Not sure what’s going on with that. The discounted ebook is available on Kobo, though.

Yeah, it looks like it’s just an Amazon/Kindle thing. If you click the various other ebook retailer links (Apple Books, Barnes and Noble/Nook, etc.) on the S&S page for Vulcan’s Forge, they all take you to a $1.99 ebook copy you can buy from them just fine.

— David Young

 

[Leathco]

Yeah, back when no one knew what an e-book was...

lol.....well they were around than, and even before than. I remember reading ebooks on a Dell Axim x51v (Windows CE PDA) before I got a Kindle. Crazy how PDAs died but came full circle with the modern smartphone.

 

[veritech]

What was the file format for the ebooks included on the New Frontier CD-ROM that came with the hardcover release back in the day? That is obsolete, right?

 

[jaime]

Sorry, Amazon is a walled garden, and they only allow Kindle ebooks to be read on Kindle devices or apps. So we'll go with "no".

And any discussion on how to make it happen anyway would be out-of-bounds on this board.

Depends if the publishers enable DRM. You can always pop them through calibre I imagine.

 

[Corran Horn]

Yeah, back when no one knew what an e-book was...

I read MS Reader on my PC screen with the .lit files - that's the format SCE started in, in fact.

 

[Daddy Todd]

What was the file format for the ebooks included on the New Frontier CD-ROM that came with the hardcover release back in the day? That is obsolete, right?

I'm pretty sure it was .pdf, so not obsolete.