EBooks and EReaders

I have stories that I have saved in Word on my PC that I would like to be able to take with me for mobile reading. Is this an option for any of the new E book readers out there? I’d like to be certain before I think of buying one.

Both Kindle and Sony Reader can read Word document. See the second paragraph in this thorough review of an actual user. It mentioned reading Word document on the Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR6L0G6ZY33S96%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255Fperm&tag=more_info-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

I suggest you to choose the Amazon Kindle. It is selling better than the Sony Reader, and the Kindle is now having the biggest share in the ebook reader market. It has free internet access and reading aloud functions, which is not available on the Sony Reader.

Hope this helps.

or do i need the nook to download them?

They have an ereader program you can use to read the books on your PC, Mac, or iPhone/iPod Touch as well. If you’re using one of those, then there’s no problem.

For other ereaders… not sure, and it depends on the format of the ebook. It looks like they use .pdb and ePub. If the book comes in .pdb, it looks like you can only read it on their supported devices since it’s a proprietary format.

If it is available in ePub, you should be able to read it on any reader that supports the ePub format, assuming any DRM they may be using doesn’t cause problems. (Sony readers support ePub, Kindle does not.)

You might want to shoot Barnes and Noble a quick email to make sure, too, since I don’t have another ereader and have never tried.

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I represent a small author who would like to make his books available as digital copies. I have gotten some published on the Kindle, but want to take advantage of other venues as well. Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!

You can publish for the Kindle directly through Amazon.com.

You can publish ebooks in several formats at Smashwords.

Both take a percentage when you make a sale, but do not charge you to offer your ebooks for sale on their sites.

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Aesops Fables
Autobiography of Ben Franklin
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift
Anna Karnina – Tolstoy
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
War and Peace – Tolstoy
The Portrait of A Lady – Henry James
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
20,000 Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne
Tom Sawyer/Hunkleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Around the World in 80 days – Jules Verne
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Beowulf
Billy Budd – Herman Melville
The Black Arrow – Robert Louis Stevenson
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
The Blue Zone – Andrew Gross
Bram Stokers Dracula
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling
The Chouans – Honore de Balzac
Celtic fairy Tales/English Fairy Tales – Joseph Jacobs
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Common Sense – Thomas Paine
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court – Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dacid Copperfield – Charles Dickens
The Devine Comedy – Dante Alghieri
Don Juan – George Byron
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
Emma – Jane Austen
English Lord, Ordinary Lady – Fiona Harrrper
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Alan Poe
Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Hamlet – Shakespeare
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Iliad of Homer
The Importance of being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
A Journey to the interior of the Earth – Jules Verne
The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Last of The Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Letters on England – Voltaire
Legend of sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
The Man who would be King – Rudyard Kipling
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Middlemarch – George Elliot
Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
The odyssey of Homer
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
On the Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
Paradise Lost – John Milton
Paz/Pierrette/The Purse – Honore de Balzac
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Poison Study – Maria V Snyder
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Prince – Nicolo Machavelli
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
The Republic – Plato
Rhoda Fleming/Sandra Belloni – George Meredith
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleride
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
The Sentimentalists – George Meredith
The Sonnets, The Tempest – Shakespeare
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Julius Ceasar, King Lear
Treasure Island – Robert Lewis Stephenson
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
up From Slavery – Booker T Washington
Uncle Vanya – Anton Checkov
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Walden or life in the Woods – Henry David Thoreau
The Wicked Earl Margaret McPhee
The Wife and other stories – Anton Chekov
The Works of Aristotle
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
The Awakening – kate Choplin

Think thats it! I have one and love it! Best thing I have ever had for a present!

I want to read on my Sony Reader
Never mind I cant

No, you cannot. E-books on ebook readers are all protected by DRM, and they can only be read with their specific device.

BTW, I’ve given a detailed review and a comparison of a few ebook readers here, guess you’ll be interested:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091128104629AA9R12D

This video was filmed by Charbax at http://ARMdevices.net from the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.

This is the first 6″ e-reader with a capacitative touch screen, it enables it to be much more compact than the Kindle as text input can be done on the touch screen. Although this is an early prototype demonstrated by Sagem Wireless at Mobile World Congress. The feature of using a capacitative touch screen on the e-reader does not remove from the readability of the screen and allows for finger touch screen input through the interfaces. A capacitative stylus input may also be supported. This device will include 3G and WiFi wireless data modems.

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Is there an Android eReader Widget/Application I can download to my MotoDroid? I love my kindle but want something more "Mobile"

There are several.

I have the Aldiko app that I use a lot with free books available, and you have the option to purchase books also…

There are some other ebook readers. Just do a search in the market or on http://androlib.com

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