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THE RUNNINGRIVER READER (tm)
The Readers' Online Guide
to the World of E-Books!
September 22, 1999 Volume 1 No. 3
Phyllis Rossiter Modeland, Editor: [log in to unmask]
http://www.RunningRiver.com
Copyright 1999 Phyllis Rossiter Modeland.
All rights reserved.
Our motto: Accept nothing without examination.
Reject nothing without consideration.
Life is what's coming, not what was.
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IN THIS ISSUE:
=> Sponsor Space
=> Letter from the Editor: FEEDBACK! WE GOT FEEDBACK!
=> Reading E-Books on the SoftBook Reader and PalmPilots
=> E-book News
=> Suggested Links
=> Spotlight: Pauline Jones, author of PIG IN A PARK and
THE FINAL ENEMY
=> Review: THE FINAL ENEMY by Pauline Jones
=> Feedback from Readers (This Means YOU!)
=> Reader Poll and Literary Trivia Quiz
=> Guest Column: Sharon L Spinner Reddy,
author of PARADOX EQUATION and MUCH more
=> How to Be Featured as our Guest Columnist
=> Our Sampler of E-Books
=> About the ebookreader forum
=> Famous Last Words
=> Classified Ads
=> Subscribe/Unsubscribe information
=> Sponsor Space
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: FEEDBACK! WE GOT FEEDBACK!
By Phyllis Rossiter Modeland
Remember the old saw, "Be careful what you ask for...?" Well, we
*asked* for feedback--and we got it! I'm happy to report that our mailbox
overflowed with great feedback, lots of questions and ideas, and even some
compliments. We thought perhaps many of our readers could benefit from
our answers to some of these questions.
Q: Ruth says, "...I have yet to comprehend exactly what a reader is,
what they cost, and where you get them..." (referring to a Rocket e-Book).
A: You can buy a Rocket online at: http://www.nuvomedia.com/ at about
$349; the same unit under the Franklin name for $299 is at
http://www.franklin.com/rocket-ebook/products/buyrb.html. Or you can
get a Rocket for about $282, I understand, at http://www.buy.com. All prices
are plus shipping charges.
You may not fully comprehend the Rocket until you've seen it in
person. And right on cue, there's this news: Book retailer Barnes & Noble
recently said that it has begun selling the Rocket in its bookstores, betting that
its customers will accept it once they have a chance to see the device for
themselves. After seeing successful sales through its online business,
Barnesandnoble.com, the parent company said it decided to "test out"
the device in 31 stores across the United States.
Q. Keith says, "... I downloaded the e-Rocket [the software simulation
that we wrote about in Vol. 1 No. 2]... it wouldn't let me view the whole
thing at once... how [do I] make it display correctly on my screen?"
A. Without knowing what kind of setup you have, it's a little difficult to say,
but I'd bet it is because your monitor is set at 640 x 480, which
won't display the complete eRocket. If you can, change your resolution to
800 x 600, which will just barely accommodate it on the screen.
Again, I want to emphasize that you do not *need* an electronic
reading device to read e-books. Virtually all e-publishers format every title
in a variety of formats. I personally prefer HTML (to read in my web
browser) or .PDF to read in Acrobat Reader, a free program available at
http://www.adobe.com.
Now for some compliments! Julie said, "Wow! Now I have a newsletter I
look forward to getting and keeping. This is just great. Keep up the
good work. I just downloaded the eRocket into my computer. Thanks for the
story."
Marsha Briscoe said, "I am thrilled with the first volume of
RunningRiver [Reader]. I find it most informative and am delighted that it is
available. Lucky me that I discovered the link to it and subscribed.... As one
who is interested in the future of e-books and e-publishing, I look forward to
many more issues."
Marsha also participated in our poll. "Yes, I have read 4 e-books: 2
recently published ones written by writer friends of mine and 2 that I found on
Project Gutenberg, thanks to RunningRiver's mention and link to that site
(which I never even knew about until I read my first issue of Running River
[Reader]."
And we are just as tickled that we could help!
We also received three individual messages similar to this one: " I
just received my first news letter and I like it a lot. As a blind
computer user, I'm always looking for speech-friendly reading matter, and I think
your news letter is going to lead me to lots of great material. I'm going
to start with a book by your spotlighted author, P. F.White--assuming I filled
out the form correctly. <grin> Well done."
Other messages from blind subscribers asked us to find out how to make
reading easier for them. With the very kind assistance of Lisa Schmitt
of Gemini Books & Gemini Bookstore, http://www.lisawrites.com, we can
help a bit there, too. Lisa came up with a link for RC Systems, makers of
the DoubleTalk Voice Synthesizer: http://www.rcsys.com. GW Micro, at
219-489-3671, produces Window-Eyes, a "screen reader" for Windows
selling at $595. Lisa found this URL for Window-Eyes:
http://freedomofspeech.com/fos/windoweyes1.html. I also found it for sale
at http://www.nanopac.com.
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READING ON A "SOFTBOOK READER" AND/OR A PALMPILOT
The SoftBook, an electronic reading device, is yet another way to
read e-books. The SoftBook company describes it thus: "Open the
protective leather cover and the SoftBook Reader turns on instantly
and is ready to read. The SoftBook Reader closely emulates the
traditional reading experience by showing a full-page on its portrait [tall
rather than wide] display with fully-formatted text and graphics. It enhances
the reading experience with features such as search, annotations, and
hyperlinks. Unlike a computer, the SoftBook Reader does not use page
scrolling which disrupts the reading experience. Instead it uses a
page-turning system similar to turning pages of a real book.
Refreshing the SoftBook Reader with new reading material simply
requires connecting to a standard phone line [with the built-in modem].
No computer is necessary [to connect] to the SoftBook Network
which uses the Internet to provide access to the world of electronic content.
"The SoftBook Reader is ergonomically designed for reading. In
addition, its protective cover and durable housing have been
specifically designed to withstand the rigors of travel. A
rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack provides up to 5 hours of
reading with a fast, one-hour recharge. The removable battery pack
enables continuous reading beyond the limits of one battery.
"The large backlit display with touch-sensitive control displays a full
page with text and graphics... Expandable storage capacity...
Carry the equivalent of a briefcase packed with paper in one small,
lightweight package."
Presently SoftBook is offering two purchase options: A one-time payment
of $599.95, or a one-time payment of $299.95 plus the purchase of a
$19.95 per month content package for 24 months. See
http://www.softbook.com for more information and illustrations.
The SoftBook appears to be targeting the "upscale" business and
professional folks.
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Still another way e-book fans read electronically is on their PalmPilots
or other small, hand-held computing devices. Text that has been formatted
for the Pilot is in DOC format, and you need to have special software
installed in your machine to read this text. AportisDoc is one of the best-known
reading programs, http://www.aportis.com/default.htm.
MobiBook, the Universal Mobile Book Reader (software and e-books
for hand-helds, including those that use Windows CE) is another, at
http://www.mobibook.com/
Because these small "palm-top" devices are so numerous, there are
many sites catering to those who want to read e-books on them:
To find e-books for Palm Pilots: see the web ring at
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=pilot_text&id=1&list.
For reference and literary e-books, see http://www.memoware.com/ .
Original e-books for PalmPilots can be found at
http://www.electronpress.com/.
Some of these resources also offer short stories, poetry, etc.
PeanutPress has a full line of contemporary "brand name" e-books
for hand-helds, including the new HandSpring Visor. They also offer
Peanut MakeBook software for preparing your own material to read
on a PDA: www.peanutpress.com.
PalmCentral.com "The Internet's Number One Palm Resource," also
has a great many links to e-books:
http://www.palmcentral.com/pilot_resources.html#etext
Editio-books.com http://www.editio-books.com/index.htm offers
"...digital books and stories for the digital age--quality fiction and
nonfiction in HTML, PDF and for the 3Com Palm."
For e-books for children readable on the hand-helds, see
"Mary Jo's E-texts for children," http://www.dogpatch.org/etext.html
For more information about these tiny computers, including how and
where to buy them at the lowest prices, see http://www.pdapage.com/,
an "Independent consumer pricing site."
While I have no personal experience with the small "organizer"
computers, Ruthie Cunliffe, a trusted correspondent, reports:
"From someone who owns BOTH devices [the PalmPilot and the
Rocket eBook] and has read on both, I _highly_ recommend the
Rocket eBook. I love my PalmPilot IIIx as a PDA but it doesn't even
come close to the Rocket eBook for reading. Reading on the 'ReB' is a
delight!"
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E-BOOK NEWS:
Those interested in furthering their knowledge of Writing and Editing
for the new media might be interested to know about the Masters in
Electronic Publishing offered in the Department of Journalism at City
University in London. More details can be found at:
http://web.soi.city.ac.uk/informatics/is/elpub.html
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FIRST E-BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB
If you're a science fiction fan and would like to read serialized
novels as they come out, see http://www.baen.com
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SIMON AND SCHUSTER LAUNCHES NEW IMPRINT
Simon and Schuster has launched a new publishing imprint called
ibooks, which will be published simultaneously in print and online--well, in a
way. First chapters of most ibooks will be available for free download from
the ibooksinc.com web site. It's not until the second phase that ibooks will
focus on download of complete books.
ibooks will publish new frontlist titles, especially picked for their
Internet marketing potential, and reissue titles by best-selling authors such
as Arthur C. Clarke, Irving Wallace, Howard Fast, and Raymond Chandler.
The first new title is ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?, a trade
paperback featuring the [log in to unmask] search for extraterrestrial
intelligence. Reissues for the launch include THE DECEIVERS, by the late
Alfred Bester, and the best-selling series VENUS PRIME, by Arthur C. Clarke
and Paul Preuss. In October, a newly expanded edition of Raymond Chandler's
PHILIP MARLOWE will be released.
In December, Irving Wallace's THE MAN will launch ibooks' American
Voyagers series, featuring historically important works of popular
fiction. Other American Voyagers titles include THE CROSSING, by Howard
Fast. In April, ibooks' will begin a major mystery emphasis, releasing first
trade paperback editions and reissues. Other target genres include history,
science fiction, and science books, such as Scientific American's
Guide to Science on the Internet.
No launch date was given for the second phase, which includes fully
downloadable books. See www.ibooksinc.com.
(Our thanks to ePUB MARKET UPDATE (tm), by Jamie Engle, Editor).
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MORE INFORMATION
For more about the present and the future of e-books, see
the following web sites--each with links to many more:
http://www.ebookconnections.com
http://www.ebooknet.com
http://www.inkspot.com/epublish/
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SPOTLIGHT: THE RUNNINGRIVER READER Spotlight is on:
PAULINE JONES, award-winning author of PIG IN A PARK and
THE LAST ENEMY.
(Excerpted with permission from an interview by
eBookConnections.com, where you will find more of the same.)
eBC: Tell us about PIG IN A PARK, including where you got the idea.
Pauline: Well, I got the idea for PIG IN A PARK watching the Gulf War
with all those smart bombs and SCARECROW AND MRS. KING reruns.
I got a kick out of the idea of an ordinary person getting involved with a spy.
It wasn't long before my "what if someone got their hands on one of those
things" became PIG IN A PARK. To research it, I called up a military
friend and gave him a near heart attack when I asked him where and how
I could get my own smart bomb. <g>
... It is pretty nice working with ePublishers. The contracts are
much simpler, you retain control of your rights and most of the communication
is done by e-mail, which is a great savings on the pocketbook. You also get
veto power over your cover art and can pull your book at any time, if you give
them written notice.
... It's a wondrous thing to string words together until they become
a real book that makes a real person laugh or cry or believe in something
that can never be. That's why I started writing, that's why I can't stop even
if everyone says no way, no how, no chance for you.
Like Saul Bellow, I've "discovered that rejections are not altogether
a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgement and to say in his
heart of hearts, to hell with you."
Reject rejection. Be a Fox Mulder and believe. Believe the magic.
Believe the impossible dream. Keep seeing things and hearing voices no
one else can. Keep writing them down and polishing them up. Keep sending
them out. If you believe, eventually your vision will find a way to real readers,
whether your words are printed on paper that's traveling in a semi-truck across
the US or riding on the electronic pulses of an electronic super highway all the
way around the world. Believe.
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"A PIG IN A PARK is at once a mystery, a suspense thriller, an action
adventure, a comedy, and a romance. Ms. Jones is a talented author
who has a funny, unique way of looking at the world that will delight fans
of almost any genre. Her heroine is extraordinary, her dialogue is catchy,
and her plot ... well, her plot must be experienced to be believed. This is a
great book."
~ Rickey Mallory for Painted Rock Reviews
http://www.paintedrock.com/memvis/reviews/mystery/jun99-1.htm#anchor83
3991
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About Pauline Jones (courtesy The Hard Shell Book Factory):
Novelist, columnist, playwright and screenwriter, Pauline Baird Jones
hails from Wyoming, but resides in New Orleans with her kinder, gentler
geologist husband (who is on record demanding an autopsy if he dies
suddenly), her home-schooled son and killer kitty. Her daughter is a
college student and literary writer, which makes for interesting
discussions during holidays.
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Pauline's books are available from Hard Shell Word Factory,
http://www.hardshell.com. Visit her web site at
http://members.aol.com/paulinebj
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REVIEW: THE LAST ENEMY By: Pauline B. Jones
(Reprinted with permission from eBookConnections.com, where you
will find more of the same.)
Published By: Hard Shell Word Factory, eBook ISBN: 1-58200-073-5
Rocket Edition ISBN: 1-58200-194-4,
Audio Book Coming from The Fiction Works
Romance author Dani Gwynne is living the stuff books are made of,
but it's the mystery and suspense aisle, not the romance section--
at least, most of the time.
Discovered in protective custody by her enemy, Dani is now alone
in her fight for survival. Unless Deputy U.S. Marshal Matthew Kirby
can find her before the hit man can. An experienced lawman, this
killer has eluded him for longer than he'd care to remember. And
there is no way a romance author should be able to hide from them
both. But Dani does, and sometimes in the oddest ways.
During a life and death game of Mouse Trap (tm) across Denver and the
Rockies, trusts are betrayed, suspicion turns to trust, frustration
mixes with admiration. But when the hit man's mission twists with
his obsession, it flips the trigger on the final trap.
I very much enjoyed Ms. Jone's blend of romance, suspense, and
comedy. Her characters are very dimensional. The hit man still
haunts me because of the way his depth is revealed as the story
unfolds. Action and comedy are smoothly written, making it easy to
watch it as a movie in your head. But, don't count on intermissions;
you'll want to read it straight through.
This is Pauline's second romance/suspense/comedy book, available
in electronic format from Hard Shell Word Factory, and it will soon
be available in hardcover from Five Star Romance, and in audio
from The Fiction Works. Her first novel, PIG IN A PARK, is
available in electronic format from Hard Shell Word Factory and
as an audiobook through Books In Motion.
Reviewed By: eBookConnections (http://www.ebookconnections.com)
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SUGGESTED LINKS FOR FREE E-BOOKS
Download and read a *free* book!
Note: For books in HTML format (to be read in your web browser), we
recommend setting your monitor window width to about half your screen
for a more comfortable distance for your eyes to travel along each
line.
Most e-publishers and e-authors provide freely accessible "samples" on
their web sites. This allows you to "leaf through" a book before buying it
and is an excellent way to get acquainted with the wealth of exciting,
well-written e-books available to you for extremely reasonable prices.
Some offer free books in their entirety.
There is a free software program called InfoBlast, an e-book viewing
tool for Win95/98/NT. It provides full-text searching capabilities,
bookmarks, links to e-book related web sites and other useful features.
"If you have a Windows machine, download the Alex etexts and use
InfoBlast to view them," invites Art Pollard, the author of Infoblast.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/downloads.html
Also at Berkeley is a library of more than 650 Rocket-formatted e-books
available through an interface in the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts. The
scope of the collection includes American and English literature as well as
Western philosophy. After locating just about any item in the Catalogue, you
can dynamically create Rocket eBook content for your ReB (as well as
MessagePad and PalmPilot). The content includes no graphics or
stylized text. On the other hand it seems to work and its free. The best
feature is that you can "index" a whole book and then search it later.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/
Also see the extensive list and links at Electronic Texts and
Publishing Resources at the Library of Congress.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/etext/etext.html
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FROM OUR READERS:
This issue's "feedback" is covered elsewhere. If you have a question
about e-books and/or e-publishing, write to:
mailto:[log in to unmask]
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READER POLL: Our question, "Have you ever read an e-book?"
elicited quite a few answers this week. Ten people have read
e-books; but to be fair, we should point out that eight of them are
e-book authors! Two other responses said, "No, not yet," and "No, but love
the idea," so at least their minds are open!
This week's question is: Do you read online? Or do you prefer material
that you can download and read offline?
Send your responses to: [log in to unmask] You need not give your
name; your privacy is assured. Results will be published in the next
issue and in the archives at http://www.runningriver.com/readerarchives/.
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LITERARY TRIVIA:
Last week's questions was: A long succession of bestsellers
began for what author with A DYNASTY OF DEATH?
There were no correct responses. The answer is Taylor Caldwell.
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This week's question is: Although "It was a dark and stormy night" is
now Snoopy's favorite way to begin a book, two authors have already used
it to begin their novels. Who are they and what did they write?
Send your answer to [log in to unmask] The first accurate
responder will be listed here in the next issue and in the archives at
http://www.runningriver.com/readerarchives/.
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GUEST COLUMN: E is for Electronic
The E in e-book refers to electronic. Anything which uses electronics
to present a book falls under that. So, it includes audio books as well
as text that is stored on CD, floppy disks or as files on your computer.
If book text was copied to videotape to be read on your TV, that would
qualify as an e-book. However, the way videotapes work makes that
unlikely until computer animation makes video interspersed with text
a reasonably inexpensive way to present a book.
Currently, e-book most often refers to text rendered in pixels on a
screen and not ink on paper. Basically, if it has a screen big enough
for words, there's probably an electronic publisher with a format for it.
The new dedicated electronic book reading devices are raising
awareness and popularity of e-books quickly, but the 'old standby'
will always be a computer with a connection to the Internet, whether
on your desk or in your pocket.
Electronic book publishing makes 'economic sense' in this day of
rising costs of paper, ink, distribution and warehousing. The Internet allows
sale and distribution to a world audience at no higher cost than in the nation of
origin of the book. Currently, most e-books are published by small independents
which are the equivalent of the small presses (which, by the way, are
beginning to make a comeback in niche publishing). Those small independents
publish traditional as well as unusual, genre-crossing books, most of it of
very high quality.
Now, at this point it is necessary to differentiate between 'professional'
e-publishers and those that are either 'self-publishing agents', those that
present books without editing and collect a portion of the sale price
for web site hosting and promotion, and subsidy publishers, those that
charge authors for preparing books for any and everything from editing to
formatting for electronic sales. A professional e-publisher invests in a book the
same way a traditional print publisher does. The author submits a query, a
portion of the book, and the full manuscript if requested. The book goes
through a full editing process, (story, line and copy) with no charge to the author
and is then published on the publisher's web site and promoted in various ways.
Those ways are increasing daily as e-books become more widely known.
In general, e-publishers do not pay advances, but they pay 30-50% royalties
on each book sold, and much more frequently than print publishers.
E-publishing contracts are usually for ONLY electronic rights and for
a defined length of time; one year is considered standard. Some
e-publishers also contract for print rights and either do small press runs or
use new Print on Demand (POD) technology to supply print editions as
ordered.
The large print publishing houses are moving into electronic publishing,
though to this date they are only offering e-books in proprietary format for
the Rocket or SoftBook dedicated e-book readers. They're also only
offering books promoted as 'bestsellers'--and at approximately the same
price as the hardcover first edition. By comparison, the small independents
format books in 'universal' formats such as HTML, RTF (rich text usable by
nearly every word processing program) and PDF (usable in the free 'Acrobat
Reader' program from Adobe). HTML is what the dedicated reading devices
use, and Rocket has a program distributed with the device that loads any
HTML document into it.
Why e-publish? My own reason is because my books are intended for a
market which is not currently being served by the mass market print
publishers. Many of the romance writers wish freedom from the formula
constraints of the mass market romance genre. Many just don't want to deal
with the 'big business' of print publishing and the difficulty of getting a
manuscript into the hands of someone who will actually read it, or trying to
negotiate a contract that doesn't, basically, give the publisher all rights to
their work forever. (Some print publishing contracts are now for 'publication
in all mediums and all which may come to be' and NO royalty clause.)
Some writers are quite willing to 'bet' on their stories and writing skill to be
worth a great deal more in the long term at the high royalty rate of e-pub
contracts. It's a very reasonable expectation because e-books don't
'disappear from the shelves' in a few short weeks. As both electronic book
publishing and authors gain recognition, more people will discover authors
whose work they enjoy. And books that authors wrote several years previously
will still be available for every new member of their audiences.
It's a young industry, but it's growing fast. Those of us who are
e-published are excited by it; and every reader who 'discovers' it widens
the knowledge of it and of the very good books available without a trip to
the bookstore or waiting for delivery. Midlist writers are taking note of this
young industry's development, seeking the RIGHT e-publisher and bringing
their established followings with them. It's a great opportunity for writers of
all types, and the success of the medium is assured. The breadth of that
opportunity and the financial rewards depend upon the writers' skill at both
storytelling and promotion, but it does in print publishing as well.
Sharon L Spinner Reddy - http://www.talespinner.net
"Science Fiction as a Woman's Fantasy"
Editor's Note: Be sure to visit Spinner's web site! It is one of the
most beautiful I've seen. Her first book, CHOICE OF THE GALLANT,
is available free from http://www.crossroadspub.com/choice.htm
and from rocket-library.com. Here is a complete list of her titles.
PARADOX EQUATION, the ten novel series: Choice of the Gallant;
And Battle is Joined; True Sons of Their Fathers; We, the Paradox Born
Child; To Gain a Liege; War for Yet to Come; Build the Sixth Power; Define
Sentience; Acceptance; Mobius
The double novels:
RIGHT TO DEFEND: Empress, Alchemy and Djinn; Djinn Rummy Royale
SOLASTRIA: Emperor Evolved; Task Worthy of Princes
STARVAN: Bronze Dragon; Sapphire Wind
THE NOVELS: Destiny's Consort; Hardline Lifer; Heroes Need a Captain;
Lone Ranger Legacy; Pentad; Available from Crossroads Publishing,
http://www.crossroadspub.com
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO WRITE A GUEST COLUMN?
If you would like to write a Guest Column for THE RUNNINGRIVER READER
on some aspect of e-books and/or e-publishing, send it (750 words
maximum, please) via e-mail to [log in to unmask] We reserve the
right to edit for length and clarity. We'll get back to you via e-mail. Be sure to
give us your URL.
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SMALL SAMPLING OF THE WORK OF E-BOOK PIONEERS:
Here is another list of only a few of the thousands of e-books
available to you *right now.* See the covers of these books pictured on
THE RUNNINGRIVER READER Archives page, usually on the day following
publication of the newsletter: http://www.runningriver.com/readerarchives/.
You will find purchasing information on the web sites following each
title. In most cases you can preview the title by reading a chapter or an
excerpt online. All are available for download or on disk in a variety of formats.
THE WILL OF TIME, Robin Bayne, http://nbayne.com/child.htm
New Concepts Publishing, http://www.newconceptspublishing.com
THE WANDERING MINSTREL, Ann Patrick,
http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/writer1
New Concepts Publishing, http://www.newconceptspublishing.com
FREE SPIRIT, by JennaKay Francis, www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/5832
Starlight Writer Publications, http://www.starpublications.com
THE WIDOW'S SECRET, Laurie Alice Eakes, http://www.theromanceclub.com
Awe-Struck E-Books, http://www.awe-struck.com
MARTHA'S MADNESS, Mary Taffs, http://www.spiritone.com/~mtaffs
Awe-Struck E-Books, http://www.awe-struck.com
DEADLY OBSESSION, Patricia A. Rasey, http://www.romfort.org/Rasey.html
Dark Star Publications, http://darkstarpublications.com
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Electronic or paper, there will always be books and people who write them,
read them and love them. We'll do our best to keep you informed of the new
developments in e-books--and the titles!
COMING SOON: A Bestseller List for E-Books and Advance Notice of New
Releases in all categories!
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS:
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously
considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently
of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876
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