No more need to settle for outlines and a sample chapter any longer. The earliest form of my book is now available, dear reader. I'm looking for intelligent critiques, observations, hints.
click.
I hope to tighten it up a bit before entering it into the B&N self-publishing software. Once it's there, the goal is to use it as an ad for something longer and more treatise-like.
Showing posts with label Barnes and Noble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barnes and Noble. Show all posts
11 August 2011
17 February 2011
Barnes & Noble
A personal announcement: I know I've been stringing my faithful readers along for more than a year on this point, but I should at last announce that I am the proud owner of an eReader.
Which one?
The Barnes & Noble Nook.
The reason? Nothing brilliant involving my efforts at comparison shopping. My aunt and uncle, bless them, gave me a $50 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble for Christmas this year, and I could not let the opportuinity go to waste. I used that money as part of the necessary payment for my Nook.
I'm still familiarizing myself with how to use it.
Thank you, Jean & Bob.
Which one?
The Barnes & Noble Nook.
The reason? Nothing brilliant involving my efforts at comparison shopping. My aunt and uncle, bless them, gave me a $50 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble for Christmas this year, and I could not let the opportuinity go to waste. I used that money as part of the necessary payment for my Nook.
I'm still familiarizing myself with how to use it.
Thank you, Jean & Bob.
28 January 2010
eBooks
I'm thinking of buying an eBook reader. This would be my latest step into the 21st century.
What do you think, dear blog readers? Should I do it? Are the devices easy to read and use? Are there really enough books available in these formats to make the investment worthwhile? Should I wait until the technology develops further, to avoid buyers' remorse?
I'm thinking especially of Amazon's Kindle on the one hand and Barnes & Noble's nook, on the other. Yes, I understand that Apple has come out with something too, but from what I've heard the iPad is higher-priced and more complicated than what I have in mind. Besides, I don'tlike that snarky guy who plays "the Mac" in all those ads, poking fun at dorky PC. SO let's stick with the narrowly-targeted eBook devices for now.
I'm a bibliophile. And, yes, I love the feel and smell of the real thing. But keeping a lot of them takes up a good deal of shelf space. I'm always picking out the ones to which I feel least attached and donating them to a library, school, or other good home. And then regretting the fact, when I say, "Hmmmm, didn't I have a copy of Lawrence Kaplan's biography of Alexander Hamilton around here somewhere? There was a great passage in there about the old Dutch families in the Hudson Valley in revolutionary times. I'm sure I could find the page if only I could find that book." At around that point in my musings I slap my forehead with my hand and realize that this was one of those books I had given away so generously.
So on behalf of preserving space, I might have to sacrifice the physical aspect of bibliphilia, and advance the easy-reference aspect thereof.
A quick and uncritical check of the relevant webpages shows that B&N claims more than 1 million titles available through its nook. Amazon claims 'only' 400,000 through the Kindle. That may mean greater variety through the nook: or it may mean that B&N is hyping its numbers through the inclusion of various non-book titles.
Amazon says the single Kindle can hold a virtual librray of up to 1,500 books. B&N says its nook can hold ... the same number, 1,500.
Anybody know of any other comparative factors I might weigh? What about the frequency with which these things have to be re-charged.
What do you think, dear blog readers? Should I do it? Are the devices easy to read and use? Are there really enough books available in these formats to make the investment worthwhile? Should I wait until the technology develops further, to avoid buyers' remorse?
I'm thinking especially of Amazon's Kindle on the one hand and Barnes & Noble's nook, on the other. Yes, I understand that Apple has come out with something too, but from what I've heard the iPad is higher-priced and more complicated than what I have in mind. Besides, I don'tlike that snarky guy who plays "the Mac" in all those ads, poking fun at dorky PC. SO let's stick with the narrowly-targeted eBook devices for now.
I'm a bibliophile. And, yes, I love the feel and smell of the real thing. But keeping a lot of them takes up a good deal of shelf space. I'm always picking out the ones to which I feel least attached and donating them to a library, school, or other good home. And then regretting the fact, when I say, "Hmmmm, didn't I have a copy of Lawrence Kaplan's biography of Alexander Hamilton around here somewhere? There was a great passage in there about the old Dutch families in the Hudson Valley in revolutionary times. I'm sure I could find the page if only I could find that book." At around that point in my musings I slap my forehead with my hand and realize that this was one of those books I had given away so generously.
So on behalf of preserving space, I might have to sacrifice the physical aspect of bibliphilia, and advance the easy-reference aspect thereof.
A quick and uncritical check of the relevant webpages shows that B&N claims more than 1 million titles available through its nook. Amazon claims 'only' 400,000 through the Kindle. That may mean greater variety through the nook: or it may mean that B&N is hyping its numbers through the inclusion of various non-book titles.
Amazon says the single Kindle can hold a virtual librray of up to 1,500 books. B&N says its nook can hold ... the same number, 1,500.
Anybody know of any other comparative factors I might weigh? What about the frequency with which these things have to be re-charged.
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