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Rocket eBook / NuvoMedia Links
Newsgroups
Sites with Texts in Rocket eBook format
(Free and commercial)
- • Alexandria Digital Literature
- ...should be offering RocketEditions in June 1999
- • Barnes & Noble's Online Bookstore
- Lots of texts (not free)..also has Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
- • eBookEmpire.com
- no books available yet
- • The Electric Umbrella
- seems they will be selling RocketEditions soon
- • Electronic Books
- From 'Aromatic productions'...so far 3 texts: The Cathedral and the Bazaar:,Eric S. Raymond ; Homesteading the Noosphere, Eric S. Raymond ; The Hacker Crackdown, Bruce Sterling
- • Internet Library
- A small collection of texts with a notable collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes stories..also has Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle and some other texts
- • Powell's Books
- Has over 500 texts in Rocket eBook format...not free
- • Rocket Library
- Nuvomedia's site for sharing copyright free texts...mainly converted Gutenberg texts and samplerS
- • Treeless Press
- ...lots of 'sampler texts' (some also available at the Rocket Library). These can be purchased whereever you can purchase RocketEditions.
E-book Information Sites / Articles
- • eBook.net
- Probably the most complete source of ebook happenings/development on the net
- • E-books.org
- a repository of information related to e-book research and
products
- • Electronic Books Resources Page
- Some interesting content; the most useful is their links list in the 'Electronic Library'
- • Teleread
- Basically a one page site that has one of the best list of links for ebooks, copyright, issues etc.
don't miss their second links page at http://www.teleread.org/tellinks.htm
- • Overview of Electronic Publishing
- Includes a tabled comparison of eBook hardware, software viewers, and a bunch of links
don't miss his bookmarks page at http://quantummusic.com/eurls.htm
- • A Field Guide to Sources Ob, About, and On the Internet
- at Emory U. ... see Electronic Publishing..slightly out of date?
E-text Libraries
(Sources that have at least some free texts that are well-known)
- • 1st Books
- Has loads (2000?) texts in plain text with some in HTML, NOTE: it is unclear as to what the copyright status of these works are!
- • The Baker Street Connection: The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Says they have, 'The full text of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories and the 4 novels is available here. '
a couple of Jules Verne and HG Wells at this page http://www.citsoft.com/scifi.html
- • BiblioMania
- Content includes: 60 classic novels, all in HTML; some non-fiction, some nice poetry collections (William Blake etc.);
- • Books.com
- Searchable, well designed; some 1,800 texts(?); copyright free; in TXT format
- • EDUNET's Book On-Line
- slighlty dated list, nice though
- • Mason West's Master Works of Western Civilization
- lists and links to important texts of Western Civ
- • The On-line Books Page
- Some 9,000 texts; SearchAble, well designed; has banned books list; see the Archives for a huge list similar to this one
- • www.books-on-line.com
- 9,000+ texts; seems that most are free for now; copyright free
- • Children's Literature Web Guide
- site about childrens lit, but has some stories on-line--see 'Stories on the Web'
- • Complete Works of Shakespeare (at MIT)
- all about Shakespeare and, of course, the texts
- • The CMU Index of Canonical Verse
- lots of poems, mainly classics; in TXT form
- • eBookNet
- also listed above as an info site, see the 'eLibrary'
- • ElectricBook
- actually a clever search engine for texts located elsewhere; about 10,000 links, so potentially about 10,000 texts; claims they will have Rocket Ebook formatted texts soon;
- • Internet Public Libraries Online Texts Collection
- over 7,700 texts
- • www.literature.org
- lots of texts; basically HTML formatted Gutenberg texts; formatted chapter by chapter
- • The Naked Word
- several dozens of texts in HTML; public-domain texts only
- • Novelon
- a couple of hundred texts in the 'Public Library' formatted in HTML chapter by chapter; some samples and books for sale
- • Bartleby Library
- several dozens of texts in HTML format
- • Project Gutenberg
- the grand-daddy of all e-text sites
- • Home page for Robert Stockton
- a bunch of texts (mainly fantasy/scifi) from Project Gutenberg
- • Savetz's Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index
- old and dated, but you can find some good links
- • University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center
- serveral thousand titles of old stuff; some not accessible from outside U of V
PNG Graphics Info / Sites
- • The Official PNG Hompage:
- offical, also has nice lists of software that can use PNG's
- • WDVL: PNG Format Page
- basically a list of the seven things you should know about PNG's
- • Paint Shop Pro and PNG
- about how to work with PNG's in Paint Shop Pro...read this!
- • PING!
- PNG info site with conversion tutorials..read these
- • JASC: makers of Paint Shop Pro
- my recomended tool for working with PNG's
- • PNGcrush
- a Dos utility (shareware $7.50) for sqeezing PNG's and doing other stuff
Other E-book Hardware Makers
Other Worthy Sites that are Related to Books and Reading
- •PaloAlto Prodcuts Int'l
- A nifty little sequence on how they developed the hardware for the Rocket eBook
- •Observations on Reading and Publishing in the Digital Age
- A series of slides (125)dealing with eBooks etc. probably the best overview review of ebook technology as of the date it was done.
...started getting interesting Rocket eBook wise at slide 19
make sure you read the notes at the bottom (especially 21); er, this will take you a while to go through
- •EBX Working Group
- the group working on the Open Electronic Book Exchange Standard
- •Electronic Book '98 (conference)
- not a lot of note here actually
- • Book Zone
- semi-commercial site with tons aof stuff related to books and reading
- • Paul's Gothic Library --some free texts
- a bunch of texts that are gothic (in HTML form)
- • Web Ring: The Reader's Ring
- 185 members interetsed in reading...book reviews, info sites etc.
- • Web Ring: 3rd Millenium Pros
- 40 members for Professional Electronic Book Publishers and Authors
- • Web Ring: PalmPilot E-Text Ring
- about 70 members supposedly interested in e-text for Palm Pilots
Any questions or comments may be directed to Sam McDonald
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