eBook FAQ
eBooks are a convenient and affordable way to feed your need to read. They are less expensive to produce which is passed along to the reader, don’t take up any shelf space in your home, and easy to carry around. But don’t take my word for it when others have said it so much better — check out these links for more information about e-books and how to make them work for you:
Amy Corwin has even provided some tips on how to import your favorite Cerridwen Press and Ellora’s Cave books into Amazon’s new Kindle and Sony’s eBook reader.
And although a few extra steps are needed to transfer your favorite books to the reading device of your choice, you had an additional benefit you may not be aware of. Books from both Cerridwen Press and Ellora’s Cave are not DRM-protected as are eBooks purchased directly from the Kindle store or Sony store. This means you can transfer books to whichever reading device you chose, and more importantly, you can back them up as needed. You are in complete control. When you acquire a new computer, you can transfer them just like any other file. And in the future, if you decided to switch from Sony’s device to the Kindle, or vice versa, you could still transfer and read your Cerridwen Press/Ellora’s Cave e-books without losing your investment.
So if you were one of the lucky ones to get a new Kindle or Sony eBook reader, here are a few tips to help you make your favorite eBooks available to you on your new reader:
Kindle
The Kindle uses a proprietary format (.azw) so you may need to convert your eBooks. There are two ways to do this: a free way and a cheap way. You can convert eBooks which are purchased in either MS Word format (.doc) or HTML. There is also a method for converting .PDF. You can get the following types of files (or eBooks in these formats) converted by either method listed below: Microsoft Word, HTML, TXT, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PRC and MOBI files. Special Note: .PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files are listed as “experimental” at the moment. Most readers find it easiest to download the MobiPocket Creator program (a free program) which will convert .PDF eBooks to the MobiPocket (.
PRC or .mobi). Once converted, you can transfer them directly to your Kindle from your computer through the USB cable. You do not need to take any additional steps if you use this method to convert and move eBooks to your Kindle.Free Way
You can e-mail the eBook to yourname@free.kindle.com. Replace yourname with your username, as defined when you got your Kindle and set up your Kindle account.The file is converted to the Kindle .azw format and is sent back to you, through the e-mail address you registered for your Amazon account. You save the file on your computer. Once there, you transfer the file to your Kindle via the USB cable.
Note: You can transfer .TXT, MobiPocket, .AZW, .AUD, and .MP3 files directly to the Kindle without e-mailing them for conversion. Just copy them from your computer to your Kindle through the USB cable.When the Kindle is connected to your computer via the USB cable, it shows up as another hard drive in Windows Explorer. Just drag & drop the files into the Book folder of the Kindle.
Cheap Way
The cheap way to convert and move eBooks to your Kindle costs $.10 per eBook. The advantage of this method over the free way is that the converted eBook is sent directly to your Kindle library where you can access it without connecting to your computer.You e-mail the eBook to be converted to yourname@kindle.com. Replace yourname with your username, as defined when you got your Kindle and set up your Kindle account.
Sony Reader
The Reader supports .JPEG, .PNG, .PDF, .TXT, .RTF formatted eBooks. It has an application, “CONNECT Reader” which can convert MS Word (.DOC) eBooks to .RTF before copying them to the Reader from your computer. In most cases, you should use the “CONNECT Reader” software to transfer supported files to your Reader.The text size for .PDF eBooks transferred to the Reader is considered small by some readers, but if you hold down the
button for five second, it will rotate the screen, which is a tremendous help.
