Wainwright Guides for Kindle?

GrimsbyWalker

06/09/2011 at 12:41

Any sign of these yet?

Paddy Dillon

06/09/2011 at 12:48

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.

GrimsbyWalker

06/09/2011 at 13:05

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......

Edited: 06/09/2011 at 13:07

Paddy Dillon

06/09/2011 at 13:14

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.

ed h

06/09/2011 at 14:15

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.

Stephen

06/09/2011 at 14:16

That great to know Paddy, I use a Kindle and the grey scale screen is crap for viewing graphics, on a Smartphone it is really good.

Cant beat a paper guide book though.

Bedouin

07/09/2011 at 17:01

>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.

For more on this see....
http://bit.ly/bCriny

Bellie

07/09/2011 at 18:01

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?

Bedouin

16/09/2011 at 16:23

It doesn't in my view.... I just read "Why E=MC2" and the diagrams are a mess!

Chris Campbell

21/09/2011 at 15:51

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.

Chris S 63

13/08/2012 at 19:55

I photographed the pages, reduced to h 800 x w 600 and loaded onto My Kindle - almost too small to read - tried photographing the pages in two halves and while it is readable - not so useful. It is easy to scroll through pictures on the Kindle just like an normal book - but no zoom - unlike PDFs

GrimsbyWalker

14/08/2012 at 14:49

Hi Chris - any chance you could share the photographed pages?

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