As you can imagine with me moving to mostly digital reading, I'm pretty happy to see the Wheel of Time books (officially) hits stores in ebook format. They should be coming once a month. I'll probably try to read each one as it comes out (starting next month). If I can read 1 Wheel of Time ebook per month, by the time I get to The Gathering Storm, book 13 should be out (hopefully with physical and digital simultaneous releases. The cover you see here is the new artwork for book 1, The Eye of the World. Not sure if I like it better than the original, but I'll pick it up with that cover anyway. I believe the Kindle store has the book with both the new and old cover, so you have a choice if Kindle is your format.
In case others are interested, here are some places you can get the book. The link in the storename should take you to the page for the book on that site.
Barnes & Noble: Price: $9.99, Format: .pdb (B&N doesn't explicitly tell you the format, but I downloaded the sample, and it was .pdb, so I assume the full book is also. With the Nook coming out, supposedly they are moving to Adobe .epub, so I'll probably wait for my Nook, and hope they have made the switch to .epub by then).
Amazon: Price: $9.99, Format: Kindle (interesting, they only have the version with the new cover now. Maybe I'm crazy, but I would SWEAR I saw 2 editions on Tuesday)
BooksOnBoard: Price: 13.46, Format: Adobe epub, and Adobe Digital Editions pdf. (I think BoB has moved to the epub format..need to browse around to confirm. If so, I also believe I should be able to buy books from here, and still read them on the Nook, since the Nook is supposed to support Adobe epub AND the B&N epub. I think.)
Fictionwise: Doesn't carry it. Odd. Still not sure why B&N doesn't combine Fictionwise into their ebook store. Unless its due to B&N moving to .epub, and they want to keep Fictionwise around for the ereader format customers.
Diesel Ebooks: Price: $15.00, Format: Adobe epub and pdf (Funny..if you search the store for Robert Jordan, this book comes up with the old cover. But on the product page, it doesn't even show a cover).
Sony EBook Store: Price: $10.50, Format: ? (Not sure if this is .lrf or .epub. Sony is moving to epub, but not sure if they have made that move yet, and the page doesnt tell the format. The filesize is twice the size of the Diesel ebooks epub, so I am guessing its lrf. But I could be wrong)
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2 comments:
so you're getting a nook? Cool !
I'd love to but they're not yet shipping to Japan. In fact I've been really bummed these days that a lot of ebooks I have wanted to read on my iphone can't be sold unless you have a US credit card with a US billing address! defeats my purpose of wanting an ereader.
Anon: yep, I pre-ordered 2 days after the announcement. Can't wait for it to arrive. I have been doing a lot of my reading lately on my iPhone, but am ready for a bigger, better reading device. And to think I got rid of my Sony PRS 505 just a couple of months ago. The features of the Nook, plus my rapidly diminishing shelf space, caused me to become interested in an ereader again. The fact that ebooks are all available globally does stink. There are books I want that are UK only. I havent yet tried to see if I can purchase them.
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