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Evo sad sam jednu drugu knjigu prebacio u mobi i deluje savrseno na kindlu. S tim sto je ova u adobe reader prebacena jednostrano, znaci ne po dve stranice...E sad jos kad bi neko bio ljubazan da mi na pp posalje sajt za skidanje domace beletristike. Baneprevoz i balkanknjige su ugaseni...

E da, jedno pitanje za iskusnije korisnike kindla - na koji način da procenim koliko je knjiga ''debela''? U levom ćošku imaju neki četvorocifreni brojevi, al nije mi najjasnije koja je to veličina...

Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor and Forge, is pleased to announce that all of their ebooks are now available DRM-free from Amazon, B&N, Apple, Kobo, Google, and most other major ebook retailers.


"It's clear to us that this is what our customers want," said senior editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden. "We see it in the success of SF publishers like Baen and Angry Robot that have preceded us in going DRM-free. To the best of our knowledge we're the first division of a Big Six publishing conglomerate to go down this road, but we doubt very much that we'll be the last."


The new DRM-free editions are available from the same retailers that have sold Tor e-books in the past. In addition, the company expects to begin selling titles through retailers that sell only DRM-free books.
About Tor and Forge Books

Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, is a New York-based publisher of hardcover and softcover books, founded in 1980 and committed (although not limited) to arguably the largest and most diverse line of science fiction and fantasy ever produced by a single English-language publisher. Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, is also the home of award-winning Forge Books, founded in 1993 and committed (although not limited) to thrillers, mysteries, historical fiction and general fiction. Together, the imprints garnered 30 New York Times bestsellers in 2011.




http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/07/torforge-e-books-are-now-drm-free

Osnivač Mark Coker odgovara na pitanje o razvoju Smashwords-a:


http://www.forbes.com/sites/suwcharmananderson/2012/07/25/mark-coker-significant-disruption-for-traditional-publishers-still-to-come/

In another sign that the industry is moving toward a hybrid market, fewer e-book buyers reported buying only digital titles this spring than a year ago.

According to Book Industry Study Group's newest edition of "Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading" report, the percentage of e-book consumers who exclusively or mostly purchase e-books fell from nearly 70% in August 2011 to 60% in May 2012.

Over the same period, the percentage of survey respondents who have no preference for either e-book or print formats, or who buy some genres in e-book format and others in print, rose from 25% percent to 34%.  The study also tracks changes in device ownership, showing that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet has overtaken Apple's iPad among e-book consumers.

Ownership of the Kindle Fire has grown from 7% of respondents in December 2011 to 20% in May, while the iPad share has remained flat at 17%. Ownership of other tablets remains relatively low, with 5% of respondents owning a Nook tablet and 8% another Android-based tablet. 
As had been expected, multifunction devices are taking an increasingly large slice of the digital reading market. 

While the Kindle e-reader is still the most often cited primary device for reading e-books, its 35% share is down from 48% in August 2011, the report found. Not all tablets are increasing in use: Apple's iPad decreased slightly from 10% in February to 9% in May, the report said, while black-and-white and color versions of the Nook e-reader also dropped, falling from 17% in August 2011 to 13% in May 2. 

For more information on the report go to bisg.org.

Da li se pojavila neka alternativa Baneprevozu (Balkanknjiga)? Hvala unapred...

i ovo nije los sajt za besplatne knjige: http://www.gutenberg.org/

Publishers Weekly:


Damages Could Exceed $1 Billion in Authors Guild Case Against Google

Liaden Universe® Audiobook BlitzAuthors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller announced today that they will release the Liaden Universe® in audio format on Audible.com, concurrent with the hardcover release of newest book in the series, Dragon Ship, from Baen Books.  A quarter-century ago, Lee and Miller re-envisioned space opera by adding romance and family values into their first action-adventure novel, Agent of Change.  The series now encompasses fifteen books, all of which will be available for download September 4 at www.audible.com/liaden.

The Liaden series will be one of the largest single-day, single-author releases in audiobook history.  The series has been divided into four groups, or sequences, each read by its own accomplished narrator.  Sample excerpts from the first book in each sequence will be available on the website as well.

The four sequences are: The Books of Before, narrated by Kevin Collins:  Crystal Soldier, Crystal Dragon, Balance of Trade; The Space Regencies, narrated by Bernadette Dunne: Local Custom, Scout's Progress, Mouse and Dragon; The Agent of Change Sequence, narrated by Andy Caploe: Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, Carpe Diem, Plan B, I Dare; The Theo Waitley Sequence, narrated by Eileen Stevens: Fledgling, Saltation, Ghost Ship, Dragon Ship.

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have been working in the Liaden Universe® since 1988, and their unique infusion of romantic space opera has garnered awards from the science fiction and romance communities.  Lee and Miller recently received the Skylark Award for lifetime achievement, given by the New England Science Fantasy Association.  Previous recipients include Sir Terry Pratchett, Anne McCaffrey, George R.R. Martin, and Isaac Asimov.

Ebooks Outsell Print!Victoria Strauss
(da li je baš tako?)


http://www.sfwa.org/2012/08/ebooks-outsell-print-putting-headlines-in-context/

New SF bookstore devoted to rescuing out-of-print sf books and making them into free ebooks

By Cory Doctorow at 8:06 pm Tuesday, Aug 7




Singularity & Co is a new Brooklyn based science fiction bookstore with a mission: based on the Kickstarter project that provided its seed funding, the store is devoted to rescuing one customer-chosen, out-of-print sf book from obscurity by buying the rights to publish it online as a free ebook.

Videh za to onomad na Ken Meklaudovom blogu dok je još u toku bilo skupljanje para, kul projekat. Ajd nek im je sa srećom, ako treba neka pomoć oko skeniranja, samo zovi, Cici!

Singularity&Co. Website Intro

Self-publishing has become a popular method for authors to get their work to the public, though it can still be difficult to publicize and distribute your work. Developing a readership is easier for authors than it was a decade ago if they've gained a following via social media and personal blog; those without a following may still struggle. StoryBundle helps independent authors by connecting them with potential readers.

StoryBundle works by grouping together e-books of similar content and genre and selling them together. The bundles are pre-picked and change regularly. If there is a specific author or book of interest, you only have a limited time to buy their book via StoryBundle. However, if you miss the bundle or would rather buy the book individually, you can purchase it directly from the author's site.


The incentive to buy books from StoryBundle lays in the payment method. You're invited to pay how much you think the books are worth, $1 being the minimum. When you go to check-out you can choose to pay via PayPal, Google or Amazon. From there you can move a dial to determine how much of your payment you would like to be disbursed between the authors and StoryBundle. The funds attributed to StoryBundle serve to keep the service running, while the funds for the authors are distributed evenly among them.


Bonus books are offered to those who pay more than a certain amount for their bundle. The amount is determined by the average amount spent by those who have already bought the bundle, so it can change for buyers later. The bonus books will be of a similar genre, but would otherwise be left out of the pre-selected bundle.


Additionally, each cycle offers patrons the opportunity to contribute a flat 10% to one of two charities. The charities rotate similarly to the book bundles.


Each bundle is available for download after purchase and free of DHRs, so you can easily share it between your smartphone, tablet or e-reader. Though, they do discourage sharing your bundle with friends because it is so affordable.

I jos malko o Neo-Patronage & Crowdfunding:

One Author's In-Progress Kickstarter Case Study

Audible.com razbija u zadnje vreme svojom vrlo raznovrsnom ponudom (istina, nikako se ne mogu prislititi da slušam audio-knjige, ne znam zašto ali nervira me, mislila sam da ću moći da slušam dok vozim ali nema šanse, previše je zahtevno) ali brate, malko su i vaćaroši, od one fele koja vas uhvati na prepad sa onim free-trial fazonom koji postane aktivan kao mesečna pretplata ako ga ne kancelujete na vreme. Što ja, naravno, nisam uradila. I saznala sam to tek danas, slučajno, nakon trećeg mesečnog debit-ordera za nekih 14 i kusur dolara.    Tako da... treba biti oprezan sa tim free-trial ponudama koje nude besplatne audio-knjige.
Što, pretpostavljam, vama i nije neka novost, iako meni jeste.   

 

The Book of the Futureby Grant Snider (via Incidental Comics)



http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2012/04/book-of-future.html

New Strange Chemistry Ebooks at the Robot Trading Company


Esteemed Robot Trading Company Customers and Mailing List Subscribers,




   Today is the hugely-anticipated on-sale date for the DRM-Free Epub ebook editions of Angry Robot's YA imprint, Strange Chemistry and The first two Strange Chemistry books can now be purchased at The Robot Trading Company.

Amazon Unveils $119 Kindle Paperwhite






Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the $119 Kindle Paperwhite WiFi eReader at a Santa Monica press conference today. The 3G edition will cost $179. AppNewser has more about the new Kindle Fire HD that was also revealed at the event.

It began with a television spot showing Amazon delivery boxes on a stoop. "We're the people with a smile on the box," it read, reminding this GalleyCat editor of a famous New Yorker cover.

Bezos explained: "People don't want gadgets anymore, they want services. They want services that improve over time" and introduced Kindle Paperwhite. The reading device has 25 percent more contrast compared to the original device and 62 percent more pixels per page. It has capacitive touch and a new front light system that Amazon took four years to develop.

"It's exactly light ambient light," he said. It can get eight weeks of battery life, even when the device is lit. He demonstrated the tool with George R. R. Martin's best selling novel, Game of Thrones. The device also tells how many minutes of reading you have left in a book. You can also "x-ray" a title, seeing characters and key terms in the digital book.


Bezos also played video interviews with three Kindle Direct Publishing authors about their experience. He then introduced Kindle Serials, a chance to pay once for all episodes of a serialized book. The book will automatically add installments and keep your notes and highlights while reading.

Author Neal Pollack will publish a yoga murder mystery and they will also republish a Charles Dickens serialized novel to pay tribute to the master of the serial medium.

(... a zanimljivo i stivo na citacu... skoro pa da je Product Placement u pitanju...  )

A Findle Fire se prodao ko vruci kolacici:



Amazon, eBooksAmazon Sells Out Kindle Fire LineBy Maryann Yin on August 30, 2012 1:23 PMAmazon said today that it has sold all of its Kindle Fire tablets. The device launched in November 2011, and the retailer claims it has 22 percent of the U.S. tablet market.

Amazon has scheduled a mystery press conference next week, most likely to reveal some new devices. According to AppNewser, some believe that Amazon will release several new Kindle Fire devices in different sizes.  Business Insider speculated that Apple has been developing the iPad Mini specifically to compete with the Kindle Fire.

Founder/CEO Jeff Bezos had this statement in the release: "This has been a big year for digital products on Amazon—all of the top 10 sellers on Amazon.com since Kindle Fire launched just less than a year ago are digital products. Kindle Fire is sold out, but we have an exciting roadmap ahead—we will continue to offer our customers the best hardware, the best prices, the best customer service, the best cross-platform interoperability, and the best content ecosystem."

Horrible Histories A-Book

... a bitka za nasa virtuelna srca i novcanike ne jenjava...

Apple, Publishers Subpoena Amazon in Price-Fixing Class Action                 


If you thought the DoJ settlement process was contentious, the litigation now heating up in the class action lawsuit will likely take things to a new level. Among this week's filings in the ongoing saga over e-book price-fixing, comes word that Amazon recently filed a motion in a Washington State federal court seeking to "quash a non-party subpoena" served on it by Apple and/or the publisher defendants in the consolidated consumer class action case now pending in New York before Judge Denise Cote. In the filings, the defendants ask the Washington court to transfer the motion to Cote so she can rule on the "discovery dispute" within the context of the class action case, and in a handwritten note, Cote agreed to consider the Amazon bid to quash the subpoena, pending a transfer. So what does it all mean? While we don't know what was in the confidential filings, or the subject of the subpoena, the filing once again shows that a central tenet of the publishers defense will be to put Amazon's practices on trial. And, that Amazon plans to resist.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/54012-apple-publishers-subpoena-amazon-in-price-fixing-class-action-.html

Amazon Is The Most Lucrative eBook Sales Channel
   



Not surprisingly, Amazon is the most lucrative sales channel for eBooks, according to Revealing the Business of eBooks: 2009-2012, the fourth eBook survey of publishers conducted by Aptara and Publisher's Weekly. The study, which was conducted in April, found that 68 percent of eBook publishers sell via Amazon making it the most popular sales channel for eBooks, followed by Apple'siBookstore which is used by 58 percent of eBook publishers.

The study found that 4 out of 5 publishers are now publishing eBooks, which is an increase of 30 percent from three years ago. Making titles available as eBooks is helping drive sales. According to the report, 36 percent of eBook publishers are "realizing double-digit annual eBook revenues," which is up 100 percent since last year. Still, the report points out that 65 percent of eBook publishers have converted less than half of their backlist titles into eBooks.

Curiously, the report found that while 31 percent of eBook publishersproduce enhanced eBooks, only 12 percent of those publishers are finding that these enhancements have a positive impact on sales.

Macmillan Poised to Test Library E-book Model                  


As big six publishers and librarians prepare for more meetings this week in New York, Macmillan officials have confirmed to PW that the publisher has developed a pilot project that would enable e-book lending for libraries—a potentially major development. However, details of the pilot remain undisclosed. "We have been working hard to develop an e-book lending model that works for all parties, as we value the libraries and the role they play in the reading community," reads a statement provided to PW. "We are currently finalizing the details of our pilot program and will be announcing it when we are ready, and not in reaction to a demand."

The reference to a demand, meanwhile, comes in response to an open letter written by ALA president Maureen Sullivan, which ramps up the public pressure on publishers to provide access to e-books. In the letter, which PW reported on in Monday's issue, Sullivan stresses that libraries can no longer "stand by and do nothing while some publishers deepen the digital divide," or "wait passively while some publishers deny access to our cultural record." She argues that readers should "rightfully expect the same access to e-books as they have to printed books," and demanded publishers explore more creative solutions.

"We have met and talked sincerely with many of these publishers," Sullivan writes. "We have sought common ground by exploring new business models and library lending practices. But these conversations only matter if they are followed by action."

Depending on the specifics, the Macmillan pilot could be a shot of much-needed good news for the library community. If Macmillan follows through and implements the program, it would leave Simon &Schuster as the only big six publisher out of the e-book game entirely.

It would also halt one negative trend: since talks between publishers and libraries began in late January, there has been no progress—and indeed, regression on the e-book issue. Penguin pulled out of the market entirely, although in June, it started a limited pilot project with vendor 3M and the New York Public Library; in March, Random House nearly tripled its e-book prices to libraries; two weeks ago, Hachette confirmed it would more than double prices on nearly 3,500 backlist e-book titles. HarperCollins continues to implement a 26-lend limit on e-books.

The news comes as librarians and publishers will meet this week in New York, including an AAP-sponsored discussion in which Sullivan will participate.

Disappearing ink gives books in Argentina read by date

A publishing company in Argentina has begun printing books with ink that fades away after just two months.

Publishers hope readers will be inspired to finish off their books quickly, rather than leaving them languishing on shelves forever.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19706724

Radi se o maloj izdavačkoj kući / knjižari u Buenos Airesu. Eterna Cadencia - http://www.eternacadencia.com/

You can call Oyster the Netflix for books, but founders Eric Stromberg, Andrew Brown and Willem Van Lancker want to bring something more to ebook reading. The startup aims to be the first real subscription service for books. When it comes to digital entertainment content, you can either buy everything you want or subscribe to an unlimited service. Yet, ebook offerings are still behind. Oyster will fix that.

The New York-based company announced today that it has closed a $3 million round of financing led by Founders Fund with participation from SV Angel, Founder Collective, Shari Redstone's Advancit Capital, Chris Dixon, Sam Altman and others.

When the service launches, it will go a bit further than a simple library by trying to select great books for its users and providing community features to increase user retention. Instead of focusing on the staid old publishing industry, Oyster is trying to improve reading in general.

"I initially became fascinated by the transition from the print book to digital while working on a research project at Duke," said Eric Stromberg, CEO and co-founder of Oysterover, in a phone interview. "Our team loves to ask the question, 'What will the future of books look like?' We want to bring books to the center of your life, and inspire you to read all the books you wish you'd read," he continued.

Focusing on reading means that a few innovative features will set the product apart. Oyster won't carry the entire catalog of a publisher. "We don't put every book on the platform. We say, 'Look, here are the great books we want to put on the platform,'" Stromberg said. Books are curated algorithmically and by real people.

Of course there is Amazon's lending library for Kindle owners. But you can only borrow one book at a time and many popular books are not available. Oyster should be more attractive, even though it remained very mysterious about its content deals.

"We have several deals in place with several great publishers," Stromberg said. The startup will share its revenue with publishers based on the number of times their book is read.

Oyster is focusing on smartphone apps and wants to provide a better reading app on those devices than existing reader apps. For example, unlike Kindle's app, readers will be able to start a new book from within the app, because there is no in-app purchase involved. Community features won't be restricted to the website, either. When asked about potential tablet apps, Stromberg didn't have anything to share... yet.

While we wait for the service to launch, you can sign up for updates and read the first blog post introducing the concept.

By Charles Tan |                   Friday, November 2nd, 2012                  at                  10:00 am                                                    


I work for an eBook publishing company based in the Philippines, so last week's announcements regarding eBooks piqued my curiosity.

Everyone is probably concerned about the iPad Mini, but I first want to talk about iBooks 3. Or rather, the ecosystem that surrounds it. Many Americans take for granted that they can purchase eBooks from most major online retailers; people outside of the US and the UK, however, don't have that luxury; Kobo's the most reasonable alternative (and supports PayPal), while Amazon charges $2.00 extra in a lot of countries. Purchasing eBooks in iTunes can be a farce depending on which country you're in. In the Philippines for example, only Public Domain books are available. If you want to buy eBooks in iTunes, you need to be in one of the 50 countries (previously 32) being supported by Apple. The announcement that eBooks can now be purchased in Latin America expands the readership outside of the typical US/UK sphere (assuming, of course, the publisher allows their eBooks to be sold in those territories).

As for the App itself, iBooks is one of the few that supports ePub 3 to some extent (Kobo and Readium are two others). ePub 3 support is important if you want more complex layouts, especially those in a foreign language (like Japanese). Take a story like Cutting by Ken Liu. While it's possible—with some concessions—to reproduce this in standard ePub, it's sub-optimal. ePub 3 gives you more flexibility in incorporating fancy layouts into your eBook. The new features of iBooks 3 only cements its lead as the technologically-superior reader, especially with continuous scrolling (which might be put-off some "traditional" readers). What doesn't get talked about are the new social media features of iBooks 3, and while this isn't unique to Apple (others have offered similar services), if it does take off, it can be another method of expanding discoverability.

The elephant in the room, of course, is the iPad Mini. In my experience, people have two opinions regarding the device:

   
• Why bother when there's already an iPod Touch?
• Didn't Steve Jobs say the iPad was the optimum size for tablets?

The first is easy to answer. If you're looking for something lighter and smaller than the iPad but has more space than the iPhone, then the iPad Mini is your answer. It fits in purses and for some, a barely tolerable size to read PDFs. While some are quick to jump at other Android-based alternatives, the key here is that the iPad Mini is locked into the iOS ecosystem, with  all the pros and cons that entails (such as the Apps and arguably an elegant and efficient operating system). The opposite is true as well: if you're addicted to the Android ecosystem, why would you jump on the iOS bandwagon?





As the second, well, Steve Jobs has reneged on various statements in the past. If Steve Jobs stuck with people don't read, then why release iBooks? Not that his supposition isn't baseless; based on data from nearly two years ago (admittedly a lot has changed since then), books are just a fraction of downloads in iTunes. So why not an iPad Mini? From a publishing perspective though, if the iPad Mini succeeds (and I don't see any reason why it shouldn't), that doesn't necessarily translate to more readers in general. iOS is great for a lot of things, including multimedia and games; consumers might be purchasing the device not necessarily to read eBooks.

What is interesting with regards to eBooks was the recently-concluded Humble eBook Bundle. It's an unconventional way to sell eBooks, to say the least, and there are a lot of factors contributing to its success. John Scalzi discusses those points better than I could have, as well as what it entails for him as an author.

What I do want to discuss is how it helps the anti-DRM cause. In the Command Line podcast, Cory Doctorow mentioned how some publishers didn't participate despite initial interest, mainly because it was free of DRM. To quote Doctorow: "It's pretty exciting to learn that if you trust people, they will, generally speaking, behave well. Not universally, but enough of them will behave well that it offsets everyone who cheats out." I personally believe in DRM-free eBooks, and I'm glad to see that this experiment succeeded. Going back to the initial problem of geographical limits to accessibility to eBooks, the elimination of DRM is a viable solution to that problem. And the fact of the matter is, DRM costs a lot of money, in addition to being proprietary.

What's interesting about the Humble eBook Bundle, and something that I haven't seen anyone stress, is the fact that a lot of the books in it were "free" to begin with. Cory Doctorow and Kelly Link's work are licensed under some form of the Creative Commons License, and while the specific comic collections aren't free per se, some of the webcomics in it are viewable in their corresponding creator's websites. So people are definitely willing to pay for material even if it's previously available (and the Doctorow crowd is well aware of this).

There's also the gamification process of the Humble eBook Bundle, which provides stats based on the donations and operating system. I wish it also tracked the region, since that's interesting data to me, but at the very least, it's a handy business model to have.

At the end of the day, I don't think these changes are enough to cause a revolution or significant change, but it's a step forward in the right direction.

Why I Was Wrong About Hating E-BooksDylan Love|Dec.  2, 2012

I railed against e-books about  a month ago.  My biggest issues were their cost and use of DRM.

In the interest of doing my best to see the other side of things, I committed  to reading only e-books for the rest of the month.
And you know what? I loved it.
I used the the Kindle  and Stanza apps on my iPad  to read e-books from Amazon and other storefronts. Because I have my iPad with  me pretty much all the time, I found that I was reading far more than usual.  Time that I'd normally spend playing a stupid iPad game was spent reading books.  You know–engaging with culture.

I still cringe at the price of most e-books. My perfect world is one  where most e-books cost a flat $10, like most albums in iTunes. At most  e-book prices, I'd like to get a physical object instead of a bunch of ones and  zeroes. But I don't buy music on physical media anymore, so I'm quickly changing  perspectives here.

As for the DRM, a means to break it is nothing more than a Google search  away. On top of it all, the highlighting, annotation, dictionary, search, and  bookmarking features turn it into a no-brainer. After a few weeks with e-books, I never want to touch paper again. When  there's a new book I want now, I'm going to opt for the digital version over the  analog every time. I'm a convert. I've seen the light, and it's coming from the white glow of my  e-reader apps.

Read more:  http://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-was-wrong-about-e-books-2012-11#ixzz2E3u0cFtC 

hm, hm... u svetu besplatne i lako pristupačne informacije, kako razdvojiti tačno od netačnog, fakt od fikcije... 





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNV4yIyXXX0

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/






VIZ Media gives Android users new to Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha (Weekly SJ Alpha) or the manga genre itself an easy reason to explore the nation's leading digital manga magazine with a new ad-supported option that allows readers to read a complete issue for free.

Readers simply click on the "Free" button in the VIZ Manga app & choose from a variety of promotional offers from our advertising partners in order to get access to each week's issue of Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha with no further commitment required. The ad-supported option is available only to Android users at this time.


Each digital edition of Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha treats manga fans across North America to the latest chapters of some of the world's most popular manga series only two weeks after they debut in Japan's massively popular Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Starting on January 21st, all weekly WWeekly Shonen Jump Alpha series will be publishing simultaneously with their release in Japan! Don't miss the latest installments of hot series such as Bakuman｡, Barrage, Bleach,Blue Exorcist, Naruto, One Piece and Toriko as well as access to special editorial features and an extensive online fan-supported community. Also explore the range of special content and premium offers that are available exclusively to Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha members from VIZ Media.







http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2012/12/07/viz-offers-android-users-free-way-to-read-weekly-shonen-jump-alpha/

ima li ko iskustva sa Nexus 7 tabletom, ili nekim drugim tabletom sa ekranom dijagonale 7 inča? zanima me kako funkcioniše čitanje pdf-ova, da li je dijagonala od 7 inča odgovarajuća u smislu da ne treba previše zumirati tekst i skrolovati do besvesti? imam nekih stručnih knjiga koje se mogu naći samo u pdf a imaju neke formule, tabele i grafike pa konverzija u mobi ide malo teže, pa razmatram kupovinu nekog tableta.

Malo ti je 7 inča za pdf. Ja imam tablet od 10'', ali mu je odnost stranica 16:9, tako da pfovi ispadaju smanjeni u portretu. možda ti je bolje da pazariš neki od jeftinijih Prestigio tableta. Čujem da su sada sasvim pristojni.

meni 10" deluje malo kabasto za nositi unaokolo, 7" mi izgleda baš taman. meni nije preveliki problem da čitam pdf na Kindlu (u smislu veličine slova), ali mi smeta što ne može da se kontinualno lista nego ide strana po strana, a ove stručne knjige zahtevaju da se s' vremena na vreme vraćaš na nešto što si već pročitao. jebem li ga, valjda imaju u prodavnici neki komad za probu, pa da vidim na licu mesta da li može da posluži svrsi.

NF, koji ti tablet imaš?

Asus Transformer TF101 (dakle, najstariji model) sa dodatnom tastaturom. Imaš u Samsungovoj prodavnici u Ušću izloženo nekoliko modela raznih tableta, pa pogledaj.

Tomate, manje-vise nebitno koji tablet uzimas, bitna je aplikacija iz koje citas. Imam trenutno 3-4 razne koje otvaraju pdf, pa vidim koja mi je zgodnija za konkretni fajl. Isto i mobi i epub.

jasno, samo me je zanimala vidljivost na manjoj dijagonali.

Navataj nekog sa 7 inca u prodavnicama ne ubacuju pdf fajlove.

Ne ubacuju, ali dešava se da budu zakačeni na net, pa neka čovek proba da skine neku aplikaciju i neki manji pdf...

Quote from: Melkor on 06-01-2013, 00:04:29
Navataj nekog sa 7 inca u prodavnicama ne ubacuju pdf fajlove.

"I'm not interested in being friends with midgets. Midgets piss me off" što bi reko Kartman

videću da li su radi da mi dozvole da skinem neki pdf. nebi li uređaj morao da u sebi ima kao neko uputstvo za upotrebu u pdf formatu?

Obično ima makar nešto. Skokni do Ušća pa vidi sam. Tako ti je najbolje.

tako će i biti.

Da li neko zna da li postoji softver za optimizaciju chitanja PDFova na KIndle-u?

Ništa što je brzo, lako i korisno -_-

Nažalost.

koji pdf čitač koristite na tabletu? treba mi neki koji omogućava hajlajtovanje i ostavljanje komentara, koji pamti gde sam stao poslednji put bez da ubacujem bukmarkere, i koji omogućava popunjavanje formi koje su u pdf formatu. ja na kompjuteru koristi Foxit reader, pa bi mi nešto sa takvim funkcionalnostima trebalo i za tablet.

45 Free and Cheap SF/F eBooks for Your Reading Enjoyment


By John DeNardo |                   

  We loves us some good eBook deals! Thanks again to Dan Geiser for the heads-up on this handful of eBook deals by top-name authors that you can grab right now for less than 5 bucks — many of them free!
[Note: All of these titles are priced under $5 at the time of writing this post, but prices are subject to change, so check the price before clicking "buy". If Amazon is not your eBook ecosystem, please do look up the titles wherever you buy your eBooks -- I spent enough time putting this together ]

Tih knjiga Andre Norton, kao i ostalih Baen izdanja, bilo je na, trenutno nefunkcionalnoj, Baen Free biblioteci -- u većem broju formata, lakše i udobnije nego na Amazonu. Ako vam to nedostaje, overite ovaj sajt, hostuje kompletne iso image fajlove tih Baen promo CD-ova, a može i preko torenta.