Amazon.com Corporation may perhaps enter the Thai e-book market this year and additionally launch its Ipad readers inside the market place, the actual Nikkei business enterprise every day described.
The largest internet dealer, which plans to developed an online e-book shop 2010, is in final periods of negotiations along with publishers like Shogakukan Corporation, Shueisha Inc, Kodansha Ltd and Shinchosha Creation Co, the Nikkei claimed.
Midsize publisher PHP Company Inc is anticipated to give you about 1,1000 digitized titles To make sure you Amazon, the day by day reported.
Japanese publishing have been reluctant to offer you content material to The amazon marketplace above concerns that your retailer will put up for sale e-books at as much as a discounted of 90 %, as with the U.Ohydrates., the day-to-day proclaimed.
The Japanese e-book market ended up being estimated at only 29 billion yen ($846.10 million) in financial 2010, compared with a couple of trillion yen pertaining to printed books and magazines, Nikkei mentioned.
Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Forum
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I chose the Nook over the Kindle because of in-store support at a local store if I needed it whereas the Kindle would have to be shipped back to Amazon if there was a problem with the device. Since I did not purchase too many books with the Nook maybe some day I will try the Kindle. The other advantage that I liked about the Nook is that there is an expandable memory slot that will hold up to a 16 gig Micro SD card. The Kindle has a built in 4 gigs and no expansion slot. The Nook has a user replaceable battery that costs about $30. The Kindle has to be sent back to Amazon and can cost between $80 and $100 to fix although I did see somewhere on the net that it is possible to replace the battery on the Kindle by yourself. I do plan on getting the Wheel of Time series since I do like long stories. The series is on my list of must reads. If I need a break from Dune maybe I will pick up the first book in the Wheel of Time and give it a read. If I like the first one I will pick up the rest of them.
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Thanks for the info.
I just got and read in 2 days, The Accidental Time Machine" by Joe Haldeman. A decent read.
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What’s the name of the essay where a space nation lost a war because they focused on developing their technology so much that they were not able to win the numbers game.
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What’s the name of the essay where a space nation lost a war because they focused on developing their technology so much that they were not able to win the numbers game.
Star Wars IV and VI.
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I started the Star Wars Darth Bane series. I really like it.
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Has anyone posted anything on Lord of the Rings? Man I love those books! I’ve read them three times and counting. When I watched “the making of” the movies I learned alot about Tolkien. A real fascinating guy. I like how he didn’t lie allegories in his book and said if something in the book meant something to you thats the point. I think a important part is hope. A key element in the story.
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Has anyone posted anything on Lord of the Rings? Man I love those books! I’ve read them three times and counting. When I watched “the making of” the movies I learned alot about Tolkien. A real fascinating guy. I like how he didn’t lie allegories in his book and said if something in the book meant something to you thats the point. I think a important part is hope. A key element in the story.
There are some Middle Earther on this site. I love the books.
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Has anyone posted anything on Lord of the Rings? Man I love those books! I’ve read them three times and counting. When I watched “the making of” the movies I learned alot about Tolkien. A real fascinating guy. I like how he didn’t lie allegories in his book and said if something in the book meant something to you thats the point. I think a important part is hope. A key element in the story.
At the very beginning of this thread, I stated that I had just started reading The Hobbit. I went through that - entertaining enough - and then started on the first book of the trilogy. Well, I put it down about 60 or 70 pages or so. Just got tired of reading “The Hobbit 2” and couldn’t put up with it anymore. Never went back.
Don’t get me wrong, I like fantasy books and movies (I’ve only seen the first Trilogy movie), but I felt like I had seen and read so much as a kid that probably did owe a nod to Tolkien that I was burnt out by the genre once I finally gave him a shot. Maybe some other time I will, but I’m not so sure. Especially with all that damn singing…sheesh
Now I juggle between a few books of 100 or so I downloaded for free on my iPad. Currently it’s the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a classic Chinese novel, a triple translation of the Quran, and some Jules Verne.
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Ya I cant say the singings annoying but give it another shot. It starts off horrible then gets better. They have to explain it all to the people who never read the Hobbit. Also if you watch all the movies you dont even need to read the books! :-D
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Ya I cant say the singings annoying but give it another shot. It starts off horrible then gets better. They have to explain it all to the people who never read the Hobbit. Also if you watch all the movies you dont even need to read the books! :-D
I enjoy the details of the Fellowship of the Ring book has. I wish the other two had as much detail.
I watched the movies first, then read the books.
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As was mentioned earlier “The Forever War” is an excellent read as well as the “Foundation” series Bradbury’s "The Illustrated Man " is excellent as well,perhaps a little twisted . “Ender’s Game” already mentioned is a great read Try Harry Turtledove’s World at War series Earth is Invaded in spring 1942 Mankind has to unite to fight off the aliens He also has a Great War series which is an alternate history where the south wins the civil war It runs through wwII
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dteven erikson steven erikson steven erikson, I have read probably two thousand fantasy books from robert jordon to david eddings to j.r.r tolken. ?one of these authors come close to to steven eriksons the book of the fallen malazan series. It is an entire world with religions politics and death. If you don’t believe me read the reviews on the cover pages it’s filled with aurthors that I have grown up reading basically saiing the these books are the greatest fantasy novels ever put together, yes even better than their own. Read them that’s all I can say they are fantasy at it’s best.
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I just bought the first book in book of the fallen malazan series as well as the first in the wheel of time series for my Nook. They both sound like a good series.
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Just finished the last book of the Star Wars Darth Bane series. It was a very good read.
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I read the RULE OF TWO…it was a very good read how is the Path of destruction?@ABWorsham:
Just finished the last book of the Star Wars Darth Bane series. It was a very good read.
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Reading Neuromancer now. Way ahead of its time. After that I’m going to read Game of Thrones so I can catch the HBO series.
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@aequitas:
I read the RULE OF TWO…it was a very good read how is the Path of destruction?@ABWorsham:
Just finished the last book of the Star Wars Darth Bane series. It was a very good read.
The third of the Bane books is the weakest. I really disliked the ending. Disliked it enough that I’m done with that series the kept missing the mark but never managed to turn me off it till then.
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Been reading the Dune Chronicles and I am almost done with book 5, Heretics of Dune. Really good series. I started picking up the other novels that Frank Herbert wrote. Anyone read any of his non-Dune books? What are your favorites?
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@aequitas:
I read the RULE OF TWO…it was a very good read how is the Path of destruction?@ABWorsham:
Just finished the last book of the Star Wars Darth Bane series. It was a very good read.
I agree with you. The first books was a home run. The second was decent. The third book you could sense the writer was hard pressed to finalize the story.
The third of the Bane books is the weakest. I really disliked the ending. Disliked it enough that I’m done with that series the kept missing the mark but never managed to turn me off it till then.
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The thing with the Bane stories, which I’ve mentioned before, is that Bane needs a villain or rather a hero. It got to be wearying waiting for the “sudden but inevitable betrayal” of the apprentice. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of ways to go with the story and the end of Path felt like ‘jumping the shark.’
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