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Originally Posted by Pturner
Hi Dominick,
You might want to go to amazon.com, look up the books you are interested in and see if they are available for download on Kindle. Price per book won't exceed $9.99. If the new ones you're interested in are available, you could purchase a Kindle.
In addition to selecting the type size you prefer, the feature I love best is the abilility to look up any word in any Kindle text in the built-in dictionary with just a couple of clicks. It also is wonderful to be able to take your "library" with you when you travel, and to not run out of space for book shelf space at home.
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If you have to have the book the same week it comes out in print you are allot of times out of luck. As I understand it the publishing houses when negotiating the release of a title in ebook fashion set the release date. They quite often want the book to have it's hardcover run or at least part of it before the electronic release. As they more and more use binderys (third party printers) and various contracts with their authors change with the times this may change but as I understand it (and I could be and often am wrong) much of what is done is dictated in advance in book deals with the authors. This is just my impression from chats when I was a temp at Amazon headquaters here in Seattle.
I am really cheap I download audio books from the Library onto my MP3. Our Library also has ebooks that can be downloaded onto a laptop or Ipad but then you are reading on a backlight screen.