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By: Планета е-книг » Blog Archive » Конвертер отвсюду в ePub ДЛЯ ИЗДАТЕЛЕЙ

Планета е-книг » Blog Archive » Конвертер отвсюду в ePub ДЛЯ ИЗДАТЕЛЕЙ — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:49:18 +0000

[...] форматов в ePub. Удивительно, но в блоге ShortCovers (пост Introducing the Shortcovers ePUB Conversion Program) описыватся форматы ИЗ которых можно конвертировать [...]

By: A. Reader

A. Reader — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:05:40 +0000

Why a proprietary format? Or rather, why charge people to get content into a format from which your application benefits?

Today, I can use a free Word plug-in to convert my text to MS Reader format. Thus, users are more likely to use MS Reader (and buy MS Reader content). If you make it a no-brainer to *produce* content for ShortCovers (via a free app) then there will be more reasons for people to *use* ShortCovers .

By: Sharlene

Sharlene — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:13 +0000

I agree with the above comments wholeheartedly. I was thrilled to see you supporting ePUB and I can’t figure out why you’re leaving eBook readers out in the cold. I have a Sony Reader and I really like the device itself, but the software interface with the Sony eBook store is just awful. Plus the store really caters mostly to the American market.

I’m an avid reader, as is my husband, but we live in an apartment and have no more room for books, so we thought eBooks would be the perfect solution for us. I already spend enough time working on my laptop and my mobile phone – I have no desire to read on them. I won’t support Shortcovers until you support the way I prefer to read my eBooks. Stop pretending you’re open and platform-neutral. It’s clear you’re not.

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Долгожданный сервис конвертации макетов - Планета е-книг — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:47:07 +0000

[...] Introducing the Shortcovers ePUB Conversion Program — Shortcovers Shortcovers is excited to announce a new service – the Shortcovers Publisher Conversion Program. Publishers can provide us with their digital source files – PDFs, Quark files, InDesign, .doc, .rtf – and for a shockingly low fee*, we’ll convert them into ePUB files, load them up into Shortcovers and then give back the ePUB file so the publisher can send it off to other vendors who also accept ePUB files. [...]

By: Devini

Devini — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:05:13 +0000

David right on. Shortcovers listen to what this man is saying. Sell books to us who read. We are the ones who buy the ebooks. Especially now we can buy ebooks on a
whim. Make a book available and we will buy it. Currently I buy books from the Sony store, Fictionwise, eReader and whoever sells me what I want to read. So, if I could read my Shortcovers books (152 and counting) on my Sony reader I would be thrilled.

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Tag soup, now at a discount ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:45:45 +0000

[...] The Indigo E-book service with the unfortunate name, Shortcovers (Shortcomings?), now claims to be able to convert publishers’ files, even “PDF,” into ePub files. At a discount! [...]

By: David Lomax

David Lomax — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:49:13 +0000

I don’t completely get this announcement. If Shortcovers supports ePub, why can’t I use Shortcovers books on my Sony Reader. Is it that you haven’t bought into the Adobe DRM? Whatever the case is, it seems silly to tout that you’re in favour of ePub, when people who use devices that read ePub can’d read your books. There’s an installed base of people who bought devices specifically for reading books, and Shortcovers doesn’t seem interested in selling to those folks.

Here’s my bet for how the future data is going to shake down: once we get some good analysis on who buys what, we’ll see that the people who buy Kindles and Sony Readers and CoolER readers and Foxit Readers and so on actually buy and read many, many more books on average than iPhone owners. Start selling to people who read. Please.

On the other hand, if I’m wrong and can now buy books at Shortcovers for my Sony Reader, please excuse my ignorance and show me how to do so. I’ll stop buying at the Sony eBook store right away and you’ll have a new customer.

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Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:26:00 +0000

[...] for the link. According to the release “… files are rolling in by the thousands.” Here’s the release: Shortcovers is excited to announce a new service – the Shortcovers Publisher Conversion Program. [...]

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Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:38:08 +0000

[...] the company blog they state “Basically, we wanted to make sure that no matter what size a publisher is, or how [...]

By: INDEX // mb - EBooks for Canadians: The Availability of the Globe & Mail Bestsellers

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:06:43 +0000

[...] Shortcovers announced today that they would digitize publishers books for free — and return the files. A huge step and one sure to buy them goodwill in the community. [...]