All of our ebooks are available for free download as ePub files. But for Kindle owners who prefer WhisperNet (or for Kindle owners who don’t know about Mises.org), we have also been selling LvMI Kindle editions at Amazon for about a year now.
So what do Kindle readers buy?
Every single month, Human Action is our bestseller.
For a while, #2 was Man, Economy, and State, but The Case Against the Fed moved from #3 to the #2 spot and has held it ever since.
But the our list of ebook titles keeps growing. I’m curious to see if the pattern continues.
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I look forward to you guys introducing books to the iPad. I don’t think I’ve had a better experience reading on an electronic device than the iPad.
@dewind,
Since any kindle format ebook can be read on any device that Amazon provides a free reader for, ( iPad, PC, etc,), there is no obvious reason, other than an unlikely lower price, for anyone to want an iPad format ebook. I haven’t even bothered to download the Apple application, so I could be wrong, but it seems unlikely.
Regards, Don
AFAIK the kindle app does not natively support epub.
However, the new iBooks format on the iPad apparently does. So epub verisons can be put into iTunes, and then synced with the iPad.
Is it impossible to read any files other than Apple’s official iBooks on an iPad? (I don’t follow computers and tech news so I don’t know anything about the different platforms and such.)
The answer will probably completely determine whether or not I get an iPad in May.
@Don, Eric
You can indeed download the kindle format and read it via the ipad kindle application. So that is decent alternative. Admittedly, Apple’s ebook reader is quite a bit better as of right now. I imagine Amazon is going to do all they can to make the application even better however.
ePub files are readable in the iPad’s exquisite iBooks. Just drag and drop them into iTunes and sync with your iPad. They’ll show up on the Library’s shelf just as though you downloaded them from Apple’s store. Accordingly, I look forward to more ePub on LvMI.
Also, snag the GoodReader app to serve LvMI’s vast library of .pdfs. I tried using Calibre to convert some pdfs to ePub, but the results were not pretty. Caliber didn’t know what to do with footnotes. Perhaps some fiddling with Calibre’s “Look and Feel” settings would resolve this issue.
@dewind,
“Admittedly, Apple’s ebook reader is quite a bit better as of right now. “
Can you please give a couple of significant examples?
Thanks, Don
Do any of the apps for reading on the ipad allow you to highlight and write notes?
@Damien
Yes, Kindle and iBooks both allow you to do that.
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