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Kindle e-Book service
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- From: Brian McMahon <bm@iucr.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:00:23 +0000
Quick note to welcome Bob Gould (ex officio as Crystallography World Wide Editor) to the discussion list of the Electronic Publishing Committee. The list has been fairly quiet of late - I guess everyone has head down, working away. If you haven't already seen the Amazon Kindle e-Book reader and download service, it may be worth a quick glance: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=amb_link_5873612_3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=00ESD85SWXD9HV7E773Q&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=329252801&pf_rd_i=507846 Some interesting aspects here. In our opinion its usefulness is limited by the US-centric cellphone system required for downloading content. Nevertheless, we might try to get hold of one of these and load it up with crystallography texts for display at meetings. There are a number of IUCr/OUP books available (e.g. Mueller's Guide to SHELXL; see http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_3?ie=UTF8&rs=154606011&sort=-price&keywords=crystallography&rh=n%3A154606011%2Ck%3Acrystallography ) Doesn't look as though International Tables is available in this format (although certainly some Springer titles are). It would be interesting to see what use these would be on the device's rather small screen. The underlying format is that of the Mobi e-Book reader. A couple of years ago we did some experiments for Howard Flack in exploring how useful this would be for technical material (I seem to remember we looked at a crystallographic pamphlet and a chapter of International Tables G). There are still significant limitations (the format is actually based on HTML). Nevertheless, I'm curious to see what they have done with these crystallography books; and I'm also intrigued by who has done the conversion, and what the arrangements with the publishers have been. Brian _______________________________________________ Epc mailing list Epc@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/epc
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