For the past week I've been learning how to publish on the Kindle. Which basically amounts to stripping away all the nice typesetting a layout you did, and coding it as best you can in HTML. So nasty.
And to suit my mood, the Kindle itself is drawing fire from all sides. Here's some links:
- Controversy mounts over Amazon's decision to silently delete certain books from customers' Kindles.
- The New Yorker's "epic takedown' of the Kindle.
- Barnes and Noble announced a partnership with Plastic Logic (maker of a new eReader), which will allow them to challenge Amazon's dominance in the eBook market.
- The Guardian wonders about the extreme influence Amazon may be able to wield if they come to dominate the eBook market.
- Even Engadget has started disliking this particular gadget.
After the pain of the past week, working my butt off to make my book look crappier, all I can say is that I hope eReaders eventually move to supporting PDFs properly (or some other format equally as good at preserving print layout).