[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

[Millicent Accardi]

It may be a lot of work but you CAN download sample chapters on Kindle to see which edition you are getting.

Although Kindle has a lot of blogs and popular novels, there is a fair amount of literary (new literary fiction) offered.

At this point, Kindle is still in the early stages.  when I got mine over a year ago, I was lucky there were a few hundred books, now, there is a lot larger selection. Now, Kindle is not the NY Public Library or Gutenberg, but it does have potential. 



Cheers,

Millicent 


-----Original Message-----
From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com>
To: Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu>
Cc: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Sent: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 8:06 am
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Kindle 2



Quite so. I checked out Chekhov among its Kindle books and couldn't even tell
who'd done the translations.

Hal


On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:




My problem with Amazon Books (that they sometimes are not easy to search and that they often give too little information about the books contents and/or edition) is exasperated with Kindle Books.  Which edition is best of Moby Dick? Are there truncations? I.e., are you reading a good version of the book, or have the editors’ “fixed” Dickinson’s punctuation and capitalization (as Perrine and Arp did in a freshman text and as the Barnes & Noble version of her poems.  

 

The designation of Kindle Edition or Kin
dle Book does not give me confidence. 

 

This is not a minor problem. Sometimes Amazon just says four novels by an author without telling which. 

 

Their customers for Kindle seem to be probably readers of popular fiction, not those who are concerned about the text they are getting (like writers and scholars). And the Amazon Kindle operation seems like a vendor which is not overly concerned with its product. 

 

That’s from looking over the list for about an hour so I could be wrong.

 







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