My understanding is that when something goes on Kindle, Amazon sets the price, not the publisher, so not every publisher is in a hurry to get their products on Kindle.
Thanks Paddy. I have seen that Mark Richards' Fellranger books are available in ebook format, as well as half a dozen of yours. I might just have dabble......
The ebook format is completely different, and so long as you read the blurb and know that it's the format you want, then you can do all sorts of things with it on-screen. Basically, you can manipulate what you see much more than you can on Kindle, and of course, it's all in colour. You can also print out three copies of the book, or the equivalent number of pages that would equal three copies. Plus, if you also buy the printed book at the same time, you get it half price.
Take care with the current Cicerone 'ebook' format - its not yet really ebook but merely an electronic copy of the existing guides (which is fine but has limitations).
I believe Cicerone are working on epubs and kindle format files at the moment.
>My understanding is that when something goes on Kindle, Amazon sets the price Complete opposite unfortunately! there was a bit of a war over this 18? months ago and Amazon lost. Publishers use the Agency Model where they set the price rather than a whole sale price where Amazon sets it. Basically you can blame Steve Jobs for that.
I thought that the original handwritten style and ink drawings were part of the character of a Wainwright book. Not sure how this would transfer to a Kindle though?
I have a Kindle and love it. I'm not sure the Wainwright guides would make for a good conversions.
The books are brilliant, but you often find the need to skip backwards and forwards in them when out on walks. Not so easy to do on a Kindle.
As for the drawings and stuff, they would be black and white to greyscale and should go across well, though you would lose the red line introduced in the revised versions.
As for the pricing being set by Amazon. They aren't. Amazon made it clearly that the publishers have forced agency model pricing on them (which was previously outlawed on physical books). I complained, as did many others, to the OFT and the whole ebook industry is now under investigation for price-fixing.
