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Print and ebooks go together — someday, when I purchase a print book at the bookstore, the clerk will ask “oh, and would you like the ebook with that too? It’s only another 15%.” If I say yes, it will … Continue reading →

Always of interest as Google Books is of course the source of content for RetroRead. Some random observations: I just caught up with the fact that one of the driving forces behind the Google book project, Daniel Clancy, has apparently … Continue reading →

See How to do (Almost) Everything With a Kindle for a nice plug for RetroRead in Wired’s “Gadget Lab” — nice spike in traffic day after posting!

A while ago I launched a series of public domain titles under the imprint “GoodMountain Books”. The content was all sourced from Project Gutenberg and the Gutenberg trademark is used to identify them. They are meant to be higher quality … Continue reading →

… the ssl cert for retroread.com failed to renew resulting in “untrusted site” errors on login for last two days — fixed. Also, Henry von Ofterdingen still not published…

Continuing the series of great German thinkers, I’ve added to my Hymns to the Night (published as “Novalis”) by Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), the same author’s Henry von Ofterdingen, his incomplete novel. It is the first book I have directly … Continue reading →

BTW, it’s been a while since I pressed the “Publish” button in DTP, most of my focus being on RetroRead, which continues to grow apace and has been much more stable. Re-doing Alice was fun and I hope to come … Continue reading →

Well, the new Kindles must be selling very well, as evidenced by the rise in sales of BLTC Press titles, which show no sign of abating (in general I could always notice blips when Kindles were back in stock or … Continue reading →

A user brought to my attention (as I still rely on my Kindle2) that with wi-fi in place for Kindle, emails sent to mydevice@free.kindle.com bypass the wireless route (if available), and thereby, bypass the $0.15 / MB fee from Amazon. … Continue reading →