{"id":131,"date":"2008-09-19T11:32:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=131"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:18:04","slug":"bits-and-bytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/bits-and-bytes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and bytes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This and that, in no particular order. Mostly stuff I forgot in the ePub post or didn\u2019t know while I was writing it or changed as soon as I hit the \u201cpublish\u201d button.<\/p>\n

\"TheBOOKEEN CYBOOK<\/a>. I briefly mentioned this in the ePub post<\/a>, but forgot to say that this is one that\u2019s caught my attention more than a few times. It\u2019s just that it gets overshadowed by the Biggies and I forget about it. eInk (therefore, no backlight–but you knew that), supports PDFs (don\u2019t know about reflow), plays mp3s. Also supports Mobipocket, HTML, TXT, and PalmDoc. It runs $379, which is a bit rich for my blood.<\/p>\n

BEBOOK<\/a>. There\u2019s a new little kid in town. According to MobileRead forums, this puppy\u2019s got 30k machines in circulation (which I have no idea what that really means). At $349, you can add it to the eInk contenders.<\/p>\n

BOOKS ON BOARD<\/a> and DIESEL EBOOKS<\/a>. I know I talk about Fictionwise<\/a> a lot, but more and more I find myself going to booksonboard.com and diesel-ebooks.com just because their formats are easier to follow and I can find stuff more easily. Fictionwise is a nightmare for my poor ADD. So, hey, Fictionwise. Do something about your web design, because you\u2019re about to lose a customer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Coming to an Australian bookstore near you. Am I the only one who can visualize this beast in the middle of Wal-Mart and Target, Sams Club and Costco? I mean, this isn\u2019t new news; the concept has been around for a while, but the machines are expensive.<\/p>\n

Still, I\u2019d think Barnes & Noble and Borders would find this to be worthy of early adoption, if only to reduce their stores\u2019 square footage and associated costs. Why are you still sitting in that small box? Your cheese moved.<\/p>\n

[Okay, okay, to be fair, PersonaNonData<\/a> reports that they\u2019re steadily rolling out in the US.]<\/p>\n

As ebookie as I am, I\u2019m excited about this thing Time<\/em> called an “ATM for books.\u201d Paper is still my first love, to stroke and fondle, to smell and behold. Uhm, paper pr\u00d8n?<\/p>\n

STANZA<\/a>. I\u2019ve been hearing a lot lately about this ebook reading software which runs (built expressly for? I don\u2019t know) the ePub format. After preliminary perusal, we at B10 find this pertinent to us in that it offers ways to convert text to the ePub format and an iPhone\/iTouch app to read ebooks on those devices. According to the website, it is also:<\/p>\n

\u2026 the first program that has a built-in export feature especially for the Amazon Kindle. Your PDFs, Word documents, and other eBooks can all be exported to the Kindle\u2019s native format and copied over to the device using a USB cable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, before we get our hopes up, Apple may blackball Stanza<\/a> the way it\u2019s blackballed Podcaster. Still, Stanza 1.4 (newest version) is now up in the iApps store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So along with Stanza, the current state of publishing<\/a>, the slow (in my opinion) early adoption of the Espresso by outlets such as Barnes & Noble and Borders, please simply add in the requisite anti-DRM rant–<\/p>\n

Just how long until commercial publishers start using Stanza to sell and distribute their wares as nonDRMed ePub? And how will the terms compare to those of Amazon and others? (From the Teleread article linked above.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is where you start wondering where the Greedy Bastards went. Ban? Ignore? Flee? No! Embrace! Embracement = mo\u2019 money. Where\u2019s Gordon Gekko<\/a> when you need him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This and that, in no particular order. Mostly stuff I forgot in the ePub post or didn\u2019t know while I was writing it or changed as soon as I hit the \u201cpublish\u201d button. BOOKEEN CYBOOK. I briefly mentioned this in the ePub post, but forgot to say that this is one that\u2019s caught my attention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,537],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-print-on-demand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16820,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/16820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}