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1imayb1
Publisher's weekly has recently run several major stories about the boom in e-book sales, especially for student research and erotica/romance.
Most interesting, though, was this story regarding the efforts of four students from Columbia Law School's Science and Technology Law Review. They are challenging digital media and asking why e-book owners don't have the same ownership rights as book owners.
I'm interested to hear other e-readers opinions about these articles, especially the last one. What do you think about it? Should e-books have resale value the way hard-copy books do?
Most interesting, though, was this story regarding the efforts of four students from Columbia Law School's Science and Technology Law Review. They are challenging digital media and asking why e-book owners don't have the same ownership rights as book owners.
I'm interested to hear other e-readers opinions about these articles, especially the last one. What do you think about it? Should e-books have resale value the way hard-copy books do?
2MaureenRoy
In November 2014, the C-SPAN channel BookTV offered a recording of the Miami Book Festival. During one panel discussion there, titled Is There A Monster In Your Laptop?, one panelist reported that Amazon now controls 40% of the total book market, and 61% of all e-book sales.
So diversify your reading-related purchases as much as possible.
So diversify your reading-related purchases as much as possible.
3bkshs
I just joined librarything yesterday, partly because I loved the idea of a world-wide collection of libraries that was managed by readers and book-lovers and not by particular commercial interests. I appreciate being able (theoretically) to add books acquired before the advent of ISBNs and those acquired now in the digital age which are pressing against the limitations* of the current ISBN setup.
Perhaps because I'm so new here and baffled by a lot of things, I'm having trouble adding books. The export from Goodreads/import to librarything function worked for only about 75% and even some of those had errors. I didn't mind trying to add some of these manually, but I was dismayed to see that a check against the Amazon catalog seems to be at issue. If Amazon doesn't have it, no information is returned for the work. I can give it a URL to grab information about the book and it will return a message that it can't help me, even if it acknowledges that the ISBN is valid.
If I take the option off to check Amazon, it doesn't seem to help. I'll still get errors that even though the ISBNs are valid, they can't be imported unless I put all the information in each field manually. That sounds very tedious. I ruled out an issue with a particular book by trying a half-dozen others.
Librarything seems to be a wonderful for cross searching and indexing digitally, but doesn't seem to be very savvy about ebooks. Or is it just me not knowing how?
And if don't want Amazon to be my primary search location for sourcing books, I have to do extra clicks. I read the disclaimer saying why, but that precisely is the source of the frustration. If we really want to make literacy and the desire for reading as universal as possible, why must we partner with those who insist on exclusivity?
If I'm just going about it all wrong, please let me know. In the meantime, I'll try to figure it out.
*Although the idea of a unique ISBN for every kind of format for every revision of a work makes a lot of sense to ensure a particular edition is being referenced, it was devised at a time when the publishing process was more mechanical than digital and works weren't simultaneously in print (in various languages, large print, or braille), epub, mobi, or audio, not to mention the rapid correction of a stray formatting flaw.
Perhaps because I'm so new here and baffled by a lot of things, I'm having trouble adding books. The export from Goodreads/import to librarything function worked for only about 75% and even some of those had errors. I didn't mind trying to add some of these manually, but I was dismayed to see that a check against the Amazon catalog seems to be at issue. If Amazon doesn't have it, no information is returned for the work. I can give it a URL to grab information about the book and it will return a message that it can't help me, even if it acknowledges that the ISBN is valid.
If I take the option off to check Amazon, it doesn't seem to help. I'll still get errors that even though the ISBNs are valid, they can't be imported unless I put all the information in each field manually. That sounds very tedious. I ruled out an issue with a particular book by trying a half-dozen others.
Librarything seems to be a wonderful for cross searching and indexing digitally, but doesn't seem to be very savvy about ebooks. Or is it just me not knowing how?
And if don't want Amazon to be my primary search location for sourcing books, I have to do extra clicks. I read the disclaimer saying why, but that precisely is the source of the frustration. If we really want to make literacy and the desire for reading as universal as possible, why must we partner with those who insist on exclusivity?
If I'm just going about it all wrong, please let me know. In the meantime, I'll try to figure it out.
*Although the idea of a unique ISBN for every kind of format for every revision of a work makes a lot of sense to ensure a particular edition is being referenced, it was devised at a time when the publishing process was more mechanical than digital and works weren't simultaneously in print (in various languages, large print, or braille), epub, mobi, or audio, not to mention the rapid correction of a stray formatting flaw.
4krazy4katz
I am not really the right person to answer this question. However I have seen posts that I think are similar and, if I understand you correctly, the suggestions have been to try Library of Congress as your source. Perhaps WorldCat if the books are international?
When I import ebooks that I purchase from Amazon, I use their ASIN number, which works except for the cover. Since my non-Amazon ebooks are a small group (MobileRead etc.) I usually do it manually.
If you don't get a more authoritative answer in the next couple of days, perhaps you can post this question in the Talk About LibraryThing group or send a private message to the LT people (see "contact" at the bottom of this page) for more intelligent help.
Good luck and welcome to LT.
k4k
Edited to correct the suggested group that would help you. It should be Talk About LibraryThing, not Book Talk. Sorry!
When I import ebooks that I purchase from Amazon, I use their ASIN number, which works except for the cover. Since my non-Amazon ebooks are a small group (MobileRead etc.) I usually do it manually.
If you don't get a more authoritative answer in the next couple of days, perhaps you can post this question in the Talk About LibraryThing group or send a private message to the LT people (see "contact" at the bottom of this page) for more intelligent help.
Good luck and welcome to LT.
k4k
Edited to correct the suggested group that would help you. It should be Talk About LibraryThing, not Book Talk. Sorry!
5bkshs
Thanks! I have been trying those, but they don't seem to have many of the newer non-Kindle ebook editions either, especially if they're not mass-marketed. I'll just add a few independently as I have time, and try not to worry about the rest.
Thanks again for the quick response and the warm welcome.
Thanks again for the quick response and the warm welcome.
