Titanic 2.0 Meets Iceberg 2.0

The iPhone Goes Both Ways

The likely availability of distributed, low cost, intelligent, OCR-scanning will put print publishers in pretty much the same boat as the music industry. Digital copying of text will be as easy and as useful as digital copying of recorded music (until recently digital copying meant copying the dumb image, not capturing the textual information in the typography. Google Book Search changed that).

I point this out not out of a desire to "put the frighteners on" print publishers, but to suggest that there is still time enough for print to get out of the hole the music business has dug itself. Get licensing those digital editions! Provide legitimate low cost access to everything for which you have a PDF file and valid title! There is no point in hanging back, publishers must build those digital markets before your customers start mode-shifting your content -- its a business imperative. The iPhone creates great potential for publishers, but if they dont seize it, they will find they have lost much more than a new opportunity.

Ah, such hope! That a jillion voices all saying the same damned thing will finally penetrate the thick skulls of an ollllld entrenched industry.

I see such tactics worked very well with all the Oil Companies. I mean, can't we all go out and buy Exxon-Mobil solar panels?! Aren't we all using BP quantum heaters? And Citgo zero point energy slabs in our cellphones?

Yeah, right.

If Teh Suits had any idea of how their industry was being taken away from them by The Darknet, they'd have the same liquid shits the greedy bankers have been experiencing.

I don't want Comments from Suits within their constipated conglomerates telling me "We're really trying." In plain talk: Fuck that shit. Must I pull that stupid Yoda quote out of my ass to wave at you? (And if you don't know that Yoda quote, please take that as a sign of your obsolescence and retire!)

While you lot diddle one another -- I read a wonderful term for you today: pearl-clutchers! -- your readership is taking the matter into their own hands with The Darknet.

Spray as much DRM as you like on things. The DarkNets will built a better Removal Tool.

That's when you even bother to release something in e. For all that stuff still trapped in p? Too much for your continued well-being already exists in e. Just ask Harry Potter fans!

Get it done.

Oh, and if you want to see just how feeble and pathetic your efforts to date have been, see The eBook Test blog. That's how sad you lot really are!

Previously here:

Reading Books Plummets In Japan Too
Apple iTunes (Store) Trademark Evolution
You're All Wrong: It's The iPod Air!
The Reasons Why eBooks Are Next For Apple
It's NOT Lower Prices, You Eejits! It's iPod Air!
And So The iPod Air Is Coming After All!
eBook On An iPhone: One Example
iPhone Wireless Printing?
Reference: iPhone/iPod Touch Screen Size
More Of That Non-Existent iPhone Effect
When An Expert Uses An iPhone
iPhone eBook Reader Stanza Available
Memo To Steve Jobs: iPhone Owners READ!
iDay 2008 + 1 = LONG Lines!!!
eReader On iPhone: What It Looks Like
Southern NYC iDay 2007 In 56 Photos!
Flashback: iPhone 2007
MSI Wind = Ten-Inch Screen MacBook?
Video: eBooks On iPhone/iPod Touch
What Apple Better Not Miss About eBooks
For God’s Sake, Get eBooks Going, Steve Jobs!
iPod Air: See You In September?
A Gadget Too Far
No iPod Air Next Week
American Tech Companies: Wake Up!
It’s Now All Down To Apple Vs. Google
Apple: You’ll Get It When You Can Sync It?
What eChanges Will High Oil Prices Bring?
Reference: iPhone/iPod Touch Backup/Sync
An Example Of iPhone/iPod Touch Keyboard Lag
The iPod Air Will Be Better …
I Said Apple Sync Was Important: Here’s Proof
eInk eBook Readers: They’re All Dead, Jim!
What’s This? iPod Air Next Month?
iPhone Continues To Swallow The Internet
Apple’s Sync Strategy Finally Arriving?
Now We Know Why Apple Bought A Chipmaker
Amazon: Already Toast
Future iPods: Piper Jaffray’s Blind Spot
Writers Don’t Fear The Future: Publishers Do!
The Lesson Of Apple Isn’t New, But It Works
The Three Companies Apple Should Acquire
Apple Has Magic The Others Don’t
Apple And eBooks: Why The Delay
For The Record: Apple and eBooks
Memo To Steve Jobs: People DO Still Read!
The Three Big As: Apple, Amazon, Adobe
Peak iPod: Has Apple Reached Its End?
One More Time: Apple And Ebooks
Is Apple’s Tablet The iPod Air?
Why Apple’s Design Is Excellent
Steve Jobs Is Up To Something. Probably Big.
Does Apple Want To Be King Of Ebooks?

Sony To Kindle: Up Yours!

Reader Digital Book Cover with Light

Light up your Reader Digital Book while keeping it safe with this all-in-one cover and custom designed light.

Compatible with PRS-505SC or PRS-505LC Reader Digital Books only.

Not only can the Sony Reader now check-out DRMed ebooks from most public library systems, it now has a way to let you read in the dark!

Previously here:

Sony’s Strange Strategy
A Gadget Too Far
Sony, The New Titanic?
eInk eBook Readers: They’re All Dead, Jim!
Amazon: Already Toast
More Bad For Sony Reader: Kindles Coming
Borders Catches Cold, Sony Reader Gets Pneumonia?
Sony Reader Can Be Bought In Spain!
Oprah, Get A Sony Reader!
Sony’s In Worse Shape Than I Thought
Sony Has Big eBook News Today
Oh, NOW He Believes Me!
Macbook Air Vs Everex Cloudbook Vs Sony Reader
Does Borders Know The Sony Reader Exists?
Sony: I’m Not Alone
What’s Going On With Sony And Its Reader?
Sony’s Got Something Big For Their Reader
Has Sony Just Lost Its eBook Battle?

Hey, Why'd I Stop?!

I've had close to a week of PC problems. XP slowed to a near-death crawl. Will resume this blog soon.

What A Major FAIL In eBooks Looks Like

I'm glad David Rothman over at Teleread did this post so I didn't have to!

David Goodis

David Goodis

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
Cassidy's Girl - $4.99
Nightfall - $4.99
Night Squad - $4.99

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
Cassidy's Girl - $3.99
Nightfall - $3.99
Night Squad - $3.99

Just three?! Pathetic!

Lauren Slater

Lauren Slater

Fictionwise - eReader/.lit
Prozac Diary - $9.35 $9.55

eReader
Prozac Diary - $9.35 $9.55

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable - eReader/.lit
Prozac Diary - $9.35 $9.55

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Diesel, Powell's

Diesel - eReader/.lit
Prozac Diary - $9.62 $9.34

Powells - eReader/.lit
Prozac Diary - $8.83

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

Price too high. Five dollars tops. Plus, the book is eight years old.

Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress

Fictionwise - eReader/Mobi/.lit
Beggars in Spain- $3.29
Nebula Awards Showcase 2003- $14.95

eReader
Beggars in Spain- $3.29
Nebula Awards Showcase 2003- $14.95

MobiPocket
Beggars in Spain- $3.29
Dancing on Air - $1.99
Nebula Awards Showcase 2003- $14.95

ereadable
Dancing on Air - $3.49 - .lit
Nancy Kress: Short Stories, Volume 1 - $5.84 - .lit
Nebula Awards Showcase 2003- $15.09 - eReader/.lit

ebooks.com
Nebula Awards Showcase 2003- $14.95 - .lit

Microsoft Reader
Refers to others

Diesel
- no match -

Powells - eReader/l.lit
Dancing on Air - $2.99
Nancy Kress: Short Stories, Volume 1 - $5.75 - .lit
Nebula Awards Showcase 2003- $13.83

Sony eBook Store
Nebula Awards Showcase 2003- $13.45

Amazon Kindle
Beggars in Spain- $2.63
Dancing on Air - $1.59
Nebula Awards Showcase 2003- $9.99

The price for Beggars in Spain is astonishingly good!! But where are the other two books in the trio?!

And come to think of it, is this the full novel of Beggars in Spain or the novella?! Dammit, probably the original novella. I knew there was a catch!!

Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham

Fictionwise - eReader/Mobi/.lit
Buried - $7.99
Burning Girl, The - $7.99
Lazybones - $7.99
Lifeless - $7.99

eReader
Buried - $7.99
Burning Girl, The - $7.99
Lazybones - $7.99
Lifeless - $7.99

MobiPocket
Buried - $7.99
Burning Girl, The - $7.99
Lazybones - $7.99
Lifeless - $7.99

ereadable
Buried - $17.55
Burning Girl, The - $7.35
Lazybones - $7.35
Lifeless - $7.35

ebooks.com
Buried - $7.99
Burning Girl, The - $7.99
Lazybones - $7.99
Lifeless - $7.99

Microsoft Reader
Refers to others

Diesel
Buried - $15.71 $18.72 $19.28 - Mobi/.lit/eReader
Burning Girl, The - $7.77 $7.77 $7.77 - Mobi/.lit/eReader
Lazybones - $7.77 $7.77 $7.77 - Mobi/.lit/eReader
Lifeless - $7.17 $7.50 $7.73 - Mobi/.lit/eReader
Scaredy Cat - $9.74 - .lit
Sleepyhead - $4.87 - .lit

Powells - eReader/.lit
Buried - $17.71
Burning Girl, The - $7.09
Lazybones - $7.09
Lifeless - $7.09

Sony eBook Store
Buried - $7.19
Burning Girl, The - $7.19
Lazybones - $7.19
Lifeless - $7.19

Amazon Kindle
Buried - $6.39
Burning Girl, The - $6.39
Lazybones - $6.39
Lifeless - $6.39

How screwy is all this?!!?

Why does Diesel have two more titles?

Why do the others only have Books 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the Thorne series?! Where's Books 1 and 2, dammit?! Do any of these ebookstores even notice this?! Why don't they demand complete series?

And why is the price of Buried out of whack at three of the stores?

Tito Perdue

Tito Perdue

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

Corporate print publishing and small presses have much to answer for!

Terence Blacker

Terence Blacker

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

More patheticness from the Corporate print publishers!

Ten Up For Today, Thursday July 17, 2008

They're up. Pathetic results.

Jean-Christophe Grange

Jean-Christophe Grange

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

Pathetic!

Hugo Hamilton

Hugo Hamilton

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

So when all you people who run ebook stores sit around wondering how you can increase your customer base, here's a suggestion: Stock books more people want to buy!

Horace McCoy

Horace McCoy

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
No Pockets in a Shroud - ninety-nine cents(!)

So no They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Jason Starr

Jason Starr

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader - Mobi only
Hard Feelings - $9.95
Touch Luck - $9.95
Twisted City - $9.95

MobiPocket
Hard Feelings - $9.95
Touch Luck - $9.95
Twisted City - $9.95

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
Hard Feelings - $8.96
Touch Luck - $8.96
Twisted City - $8.96

Amazon Kindle
Hard Feelings - $7.96
Touch Luck - $7.96
Twisted City - $7.96

Not nearly enough of his books. And the prices are too high. Look, buying ebooks should be encouraged. They should cost less than mass-market paperbacks!

Harry Whittington

Harry Whittington

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

This is a conspiracy, right? You've all banded together and decided not to sell anything I'd pay for.

Henry Green

Henry Green

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

My God! I hope these posts will do some damned good. If I was running an ebook store, I'd already be deathly embarrassed to tell anyone what I did based on these results. All of you selling ebooks have gotten fat and complacent. Well that vacation is over. I'm on your asses now. And you all suck!

Harry Stephen Keeler

Harry Stephen Keeler

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
Amazing Stories - April 1927 - $5.00

Come on, Kindle. $5.00? It should be fifty cents! I'm not even convinced there's a Keeler story in there, from the description.

Many of Keeler's madcap works were put back in print several years ago. I'll be damned if I'll spend money to get over twenty pounds of paper when I want them all in my pocket anytime anyplace. I know for a fact the original reprint files are all electronic. Put them out as ebooks, dammit! What is wrong in the head with all these damned publishers?!!?

Gerald Kersh

Gerald Kersh

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
Fowlers End - $1.00

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Fictionwise, ebooks.com, Diesel, Powells

Diesel
Fowlers End - $1.99 - Mobi

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
Fowlers End - eighty cents(!)

This is the first realistically-priced ebook I've seen! Too bad it's only in Mobi and not eReader. If any of you want to see the kind of book I like to read, this is a cheap way to do so. It'll also introduce you to an excellent and near-forgotten writer. Night and the City came up via Microsoft, but the ebook is no longer for sale anywhere!

Graham Masterson

Graham Masterson

Fictionwise
A Terrible Beauty - $6.99 - eReader/Mobi/.lit

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
A Terrible Beauty - $6.99 - Mobi/.lit

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Fictionwise, ebooks.com

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
A Terrible Beauty - $6.64
Unspeakable - $6.64
Thornfield Hall - $9.85

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

Sony finally kicks Kindle's ass!

But just how pathetic and rotten are these ebook site search engines? Neither Fictionwise nor ebooks.com matched with Graham Masterson. I found those two listings via a referral from Microsoft! You ebook sites are really redefining Suck!

Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

I see I won't be getting any of the excellent Inspector Espinosa series in e. But at least I did find out a new book is out in p. But I want and need e!

Ten Up For Today, Wednesday July 16, 2008

And that might be all, instead of the planned twenty.

The reason is that eReader has been delivering an unacceptable response rate and now I'm getting Service Unavailable.

I will end this for today and do the regular ten tomorrow.

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

So much for Auto-Da-Fe and all the rest of his work. Do any of the people who run ebook stores actually read?

Robert Lee Hall

Robert Lee Hall

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

A depth-gauge name, to see how deep ebooks go. Looks like my paperback copy of Exit Sherlock Holmes will have to be razored and scanned.

Edward Bunker

Edward Bunker

Fictionwise
Education of a Felon $25.95

eReader
Education of a Felon $25.95

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
Education of a Felon $22.83 - eReader

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
Education of a Felon $25.07 - eReader

Powells
Education of a Felon $23.03 - eReader

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

Kindle isn't invulnerable after all. No Ed Wood, Jr. and now no Eddie Bunker.

But the asking price for this ebook is highway robbery.

Edward D. Wood. Jr.

Edward D. Wood. Jr.

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
I Want to Die in Drag: The Transgender Classic - $4.89 - .lit

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Powell's and Diesel

Diesel - Mobi/.lit
I Want to Die in Drag: The Transgender Classic - $4.82 $4.69

Powells
I Want to Die in Drag: The Transgender Classic - $4.43 - .lit

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

Oh yes, that Ed Wood! He did a lot of print. It all needs to wind up in e, dammit! So does Rudolph Grey's excellent biography!

Dow Mossman

Dow Mossman

Fictionwise - Mobi/.lit
The Stones of Summer - $9.95

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- see below -

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Fictionwise and ebooks.com

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

The subject of the cult documentary The Stone Reader is poorly served in e. The ebooks.com listing Microsoft refers to has no file format or price!

And how can Fictionwise have it in MobiPocket format when MobiPocket claims not to have it at all? See what I mean about these ebook search engines overflowing with Suck? Writers will starve to death because their works can't be found and bought!

Cristina Peri Rossi

Cristina Peri Rossi

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

So much for Dostoyevsky's Last Night in e, dammit!

Jeff Lindsay

Jeff Lindsay

Fictionwise
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - $9.95
Dearly Devoted Dexter - $17.95
Dexter in the Dark - $17.95

eReader
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - $9.95
Dearly Devoted Dexter - $17.95
Dexter in the Dark - $17.95

MobiPocket
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - $9.95
Dearly Devoted Dexter - $17.95
Dexter in the Dark - $17.95

ereadable - .lit/eReader
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - $9.95
Dearly Devoted Dexter - $15.79
Dexter in the Dark - $15.79

ebooks.com - Mobi/.lit
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - $9.95
Dearly Devoted Dexter - $17.95
Dexter in the Dark - $17.95

Microsoft Reader
Refers to others

Diesel - Mobi/.lit/eReader
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - $8.92 $9.34 $9.62
Dearly Devoted Dexter - $16.09 $16.84 $17.35
Dexter in the Dark - $16.09 $16.84 $17.35

Powells - eReader/.lit
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - $8.83
Dearly Devoted Dexter - $15.93
Dexter in the Dark - $15.93

Sony eBook Store
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - $8.96
Dearly Devoted Dexter - $12.56
Dexter in the Dark - $12.56

Amazon Kindle
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - $7.96
Dearly Devoted Dexter - $9.99
Dexter in the Dark - $9.99

Kindle for the win again. But all of these prices are higher than print editions!

Denise Mina

Denise Mina

Fictionwise - eReader/.lit/Mobi
Exile - $9.99
Garnethill - $9.99
Resolution -$9.99
Slip of the Knife -$16.99

eReader
Exile - $9.99
Garnethill - $9.99
Resolution -$9.99
Slip of the Knife -$16.99

MobiPocket
Exile - $9.99
Garnethill - $9.99
Resolution -$9.99
Slip of the Knife -$16.99

ereadable - .lit/eReader
Exile - $9.09
Garnethill - $8.59
Resolution -$9.09
Slip of the Knife -$15.46

ebooks.com - Mobi/.lit
Exile - $9.99
Garnethill - $9.99
Resolution -$9.99
Slip of the Knife -$16.99

Microsoft Reader
Refers to ebooks.com, Diesel

Diesel - Mobi/.lit/eReader
Exile - $8.96 $9.38 $9.66
Garnethill - $8.96 $9.38 $9.66 - .lit/eReader/Mobi
Resolution - $8.96 $9.38 $9.66
Slip of the Knife -$16.04 $16.04 $16.04

Powells - eReader/.lit
Exile - $8.87
Garnethill - $8.87
Resolution - $8.87
Slip of the Knife -$15.08

Sony eBook Store
Deception - $8.99
Exile - $8.99
Garnethill - $8.99
Slip of the Knife -$11.89

Amazon Kindle
Deception - $7.99
Exile - $7.99
Garnethill - $7.99
Slip of the Knife -$9.99

Odd that Deception isn't available from everyone.

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Fictionwise
Dune Messiah - $24.95

eReader
Dune Messiah - $24.95

MobiPocket
Dune Messiah - $24.95
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert - $20.95

ereadable - Mobi/.lit
Dune Messiah - $24.45

ebooks.com - Mobi/.lit
Dune Messiah - $24.95

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Diesel, Fictionwise, Powell's, ebooks.com

Diesel - Mobi/eReader/.lit
Dune Messiah - $24.01 $25.13 $25.78

Powells -eReader/.lit
Dune Messiah - $23.08

Sony eBook Store
Dune Messiah - $17.46
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert - $19.56

Amazon Kindle
Dune Messiah - $7.99
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert - $9.99

That is just absolutely disgusting! Do they expect people to get into Dune by offering only the worst book in the series? Or did they figure the book was so bad, no one would want to pirate it? And are they serious with that hardcover-like price -- or simply insane?

Even worse, I came across a listing for a book called The Secrets of Frank Herbert's Dune -- which is listed as No Longer On Sale. What does that mean? What if I still want it (I do!). Do I go looking for a pirate copy because some eejit company decided it was too much bother to take someone's money for it?

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick

Fictionwise - Mobi/.lit/eReader unless noted
Counter-Clock World - $9.95 - Mobi
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $10.00
Dr. Bloodmoney - $9.95 - Mobi
Dr. Futurity - $9.95 - Mobi
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - $9.95
Lies, Inc - $9.95 - Mobi
Martian Time-Slip - $9.95
The Crack in Space - $9.95 - Mobi
The Divine Invasion - $9.95
The Man in the High Castle - $9.95
The Man Who Japed - $9.95 - Mobi
The Penultimate Truth - $9.95 - Mobi
The Simulacra - $9.95 - Mobi
The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - $9.95
Time Out of Joint - $9.95 - Mobi
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - $9.95
Ubik - $9.95
Valis- $9.95
Voices from the Street - $9.95 - Mobi
Vulcan's Hammer - $9.95 - Mobi

eReader
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $9.00
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - $9.95
Martian Time-Slip - $9.95
The Divine Invasion - $9.95
The Man in the High Castle - $9.95
The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - $9.95
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - $9.95
Ubik - $9.95
Valis- $9.95
* Philip K. Dick High by David Bischoff - $6.99

MobiPocket
Counter-Clock World - $9.95
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $10.00
Dr. Bloodmoney - $9.95
Dr. Futurity - $9.95
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - $9.95
Lies, Inc - $9.95
Martian Time-Slip - $9.95
The Crack in Space - $9.95
The Divine Invasion - $9.95
The Man in the High Castle - $9.95
The Man Who Japed - $9.95
The Penultimate Truth - $9.95
The Simulacra - $9.95
The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - $9.95
Time Out of Joint - $9.95
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - $9.95
Ubik - $9.95
Valis- $9.95
Voices from the Street - $14.95
Vintage PKD - $9.95
Vulcan's Hammer - $9.95

ereadable - eReader/.lit
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $9.10
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - $9.05
Martian Time-Slip - $9.05
The Divine Invasion - $9.05
The Man in the High Castle - $9.05
The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - $9.05
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - $9.05
Ubik - $9.95
Valis- $9.05

ebooks.com - Mobi/.lit
Counter-Clock World - n/a
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $10.00
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - $9.95
Martian Time-Slip - $9.95
The Divine Invasion - $9.95
The Man in the High Castle - $9.95
The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - $9.95
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - $9.95
Ubik - $9.95
Valis- $9.95

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Diesel, Fictionwise, Powell's, ebooks.com

Diesel - Mobi/.lit/eReader
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $9.45 $9.45 $9.45
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - $8.92 $9.34 $9.62
Martian Time-Slip - $8.92 $9.34 $9.62
The Divine Invasion - $8.92 $9.34 $9.62
The Man in the High Castle - $8.21 $8.60 $8.95
The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - $8.92 $9.34 $9.62
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - $8.92 $9.34 $9.62
Ubik - $8.92 $9.34 $9.62
Valis- $8.92 $9.34 $9.62

Powells - eReader/,lit
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $8.88
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - $8.83
Martian Time-Slip - $8.83
The Divine Invasion - $8.83
The Man in the High Castle - $8.83
The Man Who Japed - $8.96
The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - $8.83
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - $8.83
Ubik - $8.83
Valis - $8.83

Sony eBook Store
Counter-Clock World - $8.96
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $9.00
Dr. Bloodmoney - $8.96
Dr. Futurity - $8.96
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - $8.96
Lies, Inc - $8.96
Martian Time-Slip - $8.96
The Crack in Space - $8.96
The Divine Invasion - $8.96
The Man in the High Castle - $8.96
The Man Who Japed - $8.96
The Penultimate Truth - $8.96
The Simulacra - $8.96
The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - $8.96
Time Out of Joint - $8.96
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - $8.96
Ubik - $8.96
Valis - $8.96
Voices from the Street - $13.45
Vintage PKD - $8.96
Vulcan's Hammer - $8.96

Amazon Kindle
Counter-Clock World - $7.96
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $8.00
Dr. Bloodmoney - $7.96
Dr. Futurity - $7.96
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - $7.96
Lies, Inc - $7.96
Martian Time-Slip - $7.96
The Crack in Space - $7.96
The Divine Invasion - $7.96
The Man in the High Castle - $7.96
The Man Who Japed - $7.96
The Penultimate Truth - $7.96
The Simulacra - $7.96
The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - $7.96
Time Out of Joint - $7.96
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - $7.96
Ubik - $7.96
Valis - $7.96
Voices from the Street - $9.99
Vintage PKD - $7.96
Vulcan's Hammer - $7.96
* if - Worlds of Science Fiction - March 1955- $4.00

Sony's search engine had a failure, not showing the same books the Kindle Store had. So I double-checked and searched for each one by title and author and up they came. This, however, is Not Good and would have led to lost sales for people who count on a search by author name alone to present everything.

Powell's also had a search engine failure -- or possibly negligence in database encoding -- by not showing e editions for every title unless the title was clicked through to investigate. Also, and this really stinks, the e edition prices are higher than the p editions!

Why does Fictionwise have some Dick titles only in MobiPocket?

A point to eReader for having the Bischoff book (perhaps some others did, but the search engine didn't display them -- lost sales, eejits!).

Kindle again has the best prices. And that's significant: you'd save at least twenty dollars. That's like getting two books for free!

Not available in e: A Scanner Darkly, Maze of Death, Radio Free Albemuth, Confessions of a Crap Artist, Galactic Pot Healer, Eye in the Sky, World Jones Made, Solar Lottery, Deus Irae, We Can Build You, Now Wait For Last Year, The Cosmic Puppets, Clans of the Alphane Moon, Our Friends from Frolix 8, Zap Gun, Game Players of Titan, The Penultimate Truth, and the multi-volume Collected Stories.

Ouch. No Posts Today.

I've failed to carry out my mission of ten new posts a day.

I will punish myself tomorrow by doing twenty.

eBooks? What iTunes eBooks?!

Sittin’ Here, Watching The Market Go By

Associated Press headline: “Apple sells 1 million iPhones in first 3 days”. Add to that the six million phones already in the hands of customers (all of whom, I should note, chose to update their software…right when I was updating mine). Doing some quick, nearly caffeine-free math, that’s 7 million web-enabled, application-ready phones in the wild.

And counting.

And:

Since there has been significant interest in using the iPhone as an ereader, I was, well, expecting amazing things from the publishing industry. Hopes. Dashed. On a weekend when headlines were there for the grabbing and customers were searching for both toys and content, the publishing industry, perhaps practicing summer hours, was curiously silent. Not a single major initiative, announcement, horns-blaring call to check out these great offerings on iTunes.

Call me crazy, but I’d expect an industry that salivates over moving 150,000 units to be all over the potential for reaching seven million “mobile is the future” customers. Are you not out there, listening to readers, gauging their interest? They want, you have, and you’re still hiding the goods. I get this isn’t the largest market you have, but is that an excuse to sit on the sidelines?

They're eejits. They're all Buridan’s Ass.

Apple -- that is, Steve Jobs -- will have come in and force them to decide.

-- via Teleread

Ten Searches A Day

That's the goal I've set for myself to get through the one-hundred-plus list.

So pop in here every day to see the latest ten. They should be up in the evening U.S. Eastern Daylight Saving Time.

So far it's been a depressing and grim task.

I hope it gets better.

But I've dealt with print publishers.

Hey, you eejits , look at what's happened to General Motors. Enter the 21st Century already!

Dennis Potter

Dennis Potter

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

Not even Kindle! What the hell do you people put into e form?!!?

Don Lee

Don Lee

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

Not even Kindle! And this is a recent author too!

B. Traven

B. Traven

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

Not even Kindle! This is like a cultural crime!

Craig Rice

Craig Rice

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
To Catch a Thief - $5.99
Crime on My Hands - $5.99

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
Crime on My Hands - $4.79

MobiPocket gets points for having two Rice books, one of which they pulled up even though it's under a pseudonym!

All of Rice should be in e, dammit.

Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature - $5.99

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- PDF only -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- PDF only -

Sony eBook Store
Serial Killer Investigations - $11.19

Amazon Kindle
Hermann Hesse - $9.99
Existence and Evolution: The Novels of Colin Wilson - $21.60
Origins of the Sexual Impulse - $9.99
The Age of Defeat - $9.99
Access to Inner Worlds: The Story of Brad Absetz - $9.99 .
G.I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep and The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky - $21.60
David Lindsay's Vision - $9.99
New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution - $9.99
Field of Vision: The Broadcast Life of Kenneth Allsop - $7.99

Amazon gets points for liberating the Wilson ebooks from PDF and offering all but one at a one-third-off discount.

Sony gets a point for having one Kindle doesn't have.

All of them suck for not having The Outsider and Wilson's novels, which are what I want to buy in e.

Connie Willis

Connie Willis

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no match -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

WTF?!!? Really? Nothing by Connie Willis is in e?! I'm going to have to take my copy of Bellwether and scan it to make my own ebook edition?

Cornell Woolrich

Cornell Woolrich

Fictionwise
Rendezvous in Black - $10.00 - Mobi
The Bride Wore Black - $6.99 - .lit

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
Rendezvous in Black - $10.00

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Fictionwise, Diesel, Powells

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
Fright - $5.59

This really disgusts me. Why isn't there more Woolrich in e?! He's dead! What's the delay?!

A question for Fictionwise: How the hell do you manage to stay in business? The listing for The Bride Wore Black came from a Microsoft referral! If Google had your search engine, we'd all be using Yahoo!

Kindle gets a point for having a decent price and a book no one else has.

Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad

Fictionwise
He Walked Among Us - $8.99
Journals of the Plague Years - $2.85 - multi
Mexica - $7.99 - multi
The Druid King - $9.95 - Mobi
Vampire Junkies - $2.49 - multi

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
The Druid King - $9.95

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Fictionwise, Powell's, Diesel

Diesel
The Druid King - $11.92 - .lit

Powells
- no ebooks -

Sony eBook Store
The Druid King - $8.96

Amazon Kindle
The Druid King - $7.96

Fictionwise's listing for He Walked Among Us came up via a Microsoft referral! More suck, Fictionwise!

And since Fictionwise owns eReader, why does eReader have nothing?

Kindle doesn't win this time.

Why isn't there more Spinrad in e? Where's Iron Dream, Agent of Chaos, and Bug Jack Barron to begin with?

Derek Raymond

Derek Raymond

Fictionwise
- no match -

eReader
- no match -

MobiPocket
- no match -

ereadable
- no match -

ebooks.com
- no match -

Microsoft Reader
- no match -

Diesel
- no match -

Powells
- no match -

Sony eBook Store
- no match -

Amazon Kindle
- no match -

Not even Kindle has anything!

Who is Derek Raymond? Learn!

Raymond is now making the ebook world look like shit.

What do you ebook "publishers" actually do? Just take e-delivery of whatever a wholesaler is offering? Do any of you even try to license the e-rights for any damned books? Raymond's work are being re-issued in the U.S.. Take the frikkin hint!

Barry N. Malzberg

Barry N. Malzberg

Fictionwise - multiformat
Beyond Apollo - $5.99
Final War - $1.59
In the Stone House - $1.59
Le Croix - $1.69
Shiva and Other Stories - $6.99
The Engines of the Night - $5.99

eReader
- same as Fictionwise -

MobiPocket
Final War - $1.59
In the Stone House - $1.59
Le Croix - $1.69

ereadable
Le Croix - Malzberg - $2.50 - .lit
Shiva and Other Stories - $6.29 - .lit
Shiva and Other Stories - $6.43 - eReader

ebooks.com - Mobi/.lit
Beyond Apollo - $5.99

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Fictionwise, Powells, ebooks, Diesel

Diesel
Beyond Apollo - $5.38 - Mobi
Beyond Apollo - $5.63 - .lit
Shiva and Other Stories - $6.76 - Mobi
Shiva and Other Stories - $6.08 - .lit
Shiva and Other Stories - $6.27 - eReader
The Engines of the Night - $4.84 - eReader
The Engines of the Night - $5.22 - Mobi

Powells
Le Croix - $1.69 - .lit
Shiva and Other Stories - $6.20 - .lit
The Engines of the Night - $6.20 - eReader

Sony eBook Store
- no match! -

Amazon Kindle
Final War - $1.27
In the Stone House - $1.27
Le Croix - $1.35

For the first time, Kindle does not come out ahead.

Fictionwise, you suck. The Engines of the Night didn't come up in your search engine. I found it via a Microsoft referral!

Sony gets the Suck Award for not having anything by Malzberg.

There should be much more of Barry N. Malzberg put into e, dammit.

Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison

Fictionwise - multiformat
Ellison Wonderland - $9.99
Gentleman Junkie - $9.99
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - $9.99
Memos From Purgatory - $9.99
Paingod and Other Delusions - $9.99
Shatterday - $9.99
Spider Kiss - $8.99
Spider Kiss (2008 Edition) - $9.99
Web of the City - $9.99

eReader
- same as Fictionwise -

MobiPocket
Ellison Wonderland - n/a
Gentleman Junkie - $12.99
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - n/a
Memos From Purgatory - $9.99
Paingod and Other Delusions - $12.99
Shatterday - $12.99
Spider Kiss - $12.99
Spider Kiss (2008 Edition) - n/a
Web of the City - $12.99
* No Doors, No Windows - $8.99
* Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine" - $10.00

ereadable
Ellison Wonderland - n/a
Gentleman Junkie - $8.18 - eReader
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - n/a
Memos From Purgatory - $8.18
Paingod and Other Delusions - $8.18 - eReader
Shatterday - $8.18 - eReader
Shatterday - $11.30 - .lit
Spider Kiss - $7.73 - .lit
Spider Kiss (2008 Edition) - n/a
Web of the City - n/a
* No Doors, No Windows - $8.18 * - eReader
* Harlan Ellison Short Stories Volume 1 - $5.39 - .lit*
* Harlan Ellison Short Stories Volume 2 - $5.39 - .lit*
* Harlan Ellison Short Stories Volume 3 - $5.39 - .lit*

ebooks.com
- PDF only -

Microsoft Reader
Refers to ebooks and OfficeMax(!)

Diesel
Ellison Wonderland - n/a
Gentleman Junkie - $8.06 - eReader
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - n/a
Memos From Purgatory - $8.06 - eReader
Paingod and Other Delusions - $8.06 - eReader
Shatterday - n/a
Spider Kiss - $11.28 - .lit
Spider Kiss (2008 Edition) - n/a
Web of the City - n/a
* No Doors, No Windows - $8.06 * - eReader

Powells
Ellison Wonderland - n/a
Gentleman Junkie - $8.06 - eReader
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - n/a
Memos From Purgatory - $8.06 - eReader
Paingod and Other Delusions - $7.98 - eReader
Shatterday - $7.98 - eReader
Spider Kiss - $11.53 - .lit
Spider Kiss (2008 Edition) - n/a
Web of the City - n/a
* No Doors, No Windows - n/a*

Sony eBook Store
Ellison Wonderland - n/a
Gentleman Junkie - n/a
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - n/a
Memos From Purgatory - n/a
Paingod and Other Delusions - n/a
Shatterday - n/a
Spider Kiss - $8.06
Spider Kiss (2008 Edition) - n/a
Web of the City - n/a
* No Doors, No Windows - n/a*

Amazon Kindle
Ellison Wonderland - $9.99
Gentleman Junkie - $8.06 - eReader
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - n/a
Memos From Purgatory - $8.06 - eReader
Paingod and Other Delusions - $9.99
Shatterday - $9.99
Spider Kiss - $8.09
Spider Kiss (2008 Edition) - n/a
Web of the City - $9.99
* No Doors, No Windows - $7.19 *
* Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine" - $8.00 *

I'm surprised by several things here.

One, that more of Ellison's collected works aren't in e. Where's The Glass Teat? Harlan Ellison's Hornbook? All the Lies That Are My Life? The Essential Ellison?

Second, that Kindle has more short stories of his than anyone else.

Three, that Sony is doing Ellison a disservice.

Note that for Harlan Ellison, I have left individual short stories out of these results. I'm more interested in collected and book-length works from all authors.

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

Fictionwise - multiformat
Anthem - 99 cents

eReader
Anthem - 99 cents
Ayn Rand and Business - $22.95

MobiPocket
Anthem - $4.99
Anthem - 99 cents
Anthem - $2.00

ereadable
Anthem - $4.74 - .lit
Anthem - $2.50 - .lit
Ayn Rand and Business - $20.19 - eReader/.lit
CliffNotes Fountainhead - $5.51 - eReader
Anthem - $3.51 - .lit
Anthem - $7.55

ebooks.com - Mobi/.lit
Anthem - $4.99

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Powells, ebooks, Diesel

Diesel - .lit/Mobi
Anthem - $4.69/$4.82
Anthem - $2.02 - .lit

Powells
Anthem - $1.99 - .lit

Sony eBook Store
No match

Amazon Kindle
Anthem - 99 cents
Anthem - $1.60
Anthem - $3.99
The New Ayn Rand Companion, Revised and Expanded Edition - $55.96
Don't Bring Ayn Rand to a Gunfight - This Advice Might Save Your Life! - $7.02
Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist - $21.05

This was a very, very big surprise. Let me just say that based on what I've seen, I thought all of Rand's works were, um, officially available. She's dead. What's the holdup?

Again, Kindle has some exclusive titles. How does that happen?

$55.96 for an ebook. You Objectivists are a regular riot.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Fictionwise - eReader/Mobi/.lit
Beerspit Night and Cursing - $13.95
Betting on the Muse - $13.95
Bone Palace Ballet - $13.95
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - $12.95
Dangling in the Tournefortia - $12.95
Factotum - $9.95
Ham On Rye - $10.95
Hollywood - $12.95
Hot Water Music - $13.95
Living On Luck- $13.95
Love is a Dog From Hell - $12.95
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck - $11.95
Open All Night - $13.95
Play the Piano Drunk - $11.95
Post Office - $10.95
Pulp - $11.95
Reach for the Sun Vol. 3- $13.95
Screams from the Balcony- $12.95
Septuagenarian Stew - $13.95
South of No North - $11.95
The Captain is Out to Lunch - $11.95
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses - $11.95
The Last Night of the Earth Poems - $13.95
The Movie 'Barfly' - $10.95
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps - $13.95
The People Look Like Flowers At Last - $10.95
The Pleasures of the Damned - $19.95
The Roominghouse Madrigals - $11.95
War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 - $12.95
What Matters Most is How Well - $13.95
Women - $10.95
You Get So Alone at Times - $12.95

eReader
- same as Fictionwise -

MobiPocket
- same as Fictionwise -

ereadable - .lit/eReader
Beerspit Night and Cursing - $12.83
Betting on the Muse - $12.83
Bone Palace Ballet - $12.83
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - $11.91
Dangling in the Tournefortia - $11.91
Factotum - $9.95
Ham On Rye - $10.07
Hollywood - $11.91
Hot Water Music - $12.83
Living On Luck- $12.83
Love is a Dog From Hell - $11.91
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck - $10.99
Open All Night - $12.83
Play the Piano Drunk - $10.99
Post Office - $10.07
Pulp - $10.99
Reach for the Sun Vol. 3 - $12.83
Screams from the Balcony - $12.30
Septuagenarian Stew - $12.85
South of No North - $10.99
The Captain is Out to Lunch - $10.99
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses - $10.99
The Last Night of the Earth Poems - $12.83
The Movie 'Barfly' - $10.07
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps - $12.83
The People Look Like Flowers At Last - $10.07
The Pleasures of the Damned - $17.55
The Roominghouse Madrigals - $10.99
War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 - $11.91
What Matters Most is How Well - $12.83
Women - $10.07
You Get So Alone at Times - $11.91

ebooks.com - Mobi/.lit
- same as Fictionwise -

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Powells, ebooks, Diesel

Diesel - Mobi/.lit/eReader
Beerspit Night and Cursing - $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
Betting on the Muse - $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
Bone Palace Ballet - $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - $11.61 $12.15 $12.52
Dangling in the Tournefortia - $11.61 $12.15 $12.52
Factotum - $8.92 $9.34 $9.62
Ham On Rye - $9.81 $10.28 $10.58
Hollywood - $11.61 $12.15 $12.52
Hot Water Music - $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
Living On Luck- $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
Love is a Dog From Hell - $11.61 $12.15 $12.52
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck - $10.71 $11.21 $11.55
Open All Night - $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
Play the Piano Drunk - $10.71 $11.21 $11.55
Post Office - $9.81 $10.28 $10.58
Pulp - $10.71 $11.21 $11.55
Reach for the Sun Vol. 3 - $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
Screams from the Balcony - $11.61 $12.15 $12.52
Septuagenarian Stew - $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
South of No North - $10.71 $11.21 $11.55
The Captain is Out to Lunch - $10.71 $11.21 $11.55
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses - $10.71 $11.21 $11.55
The Last Night of the Earth Poems - $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
The Movie 'Barfly' - $9.81 $10.28 $10.58
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps - $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
The People Look Like Flowers At Last - $10.65 $10.65 $10.65
The Pleasures of the Damned - $17.88 $18.72 $19.28
The Roominghouse Madrigals - $10.71 $11.21 $11.55
War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 - $11.61 $12.15 $12.52
What Matters Most is How Well - $12.50 $13.09 $13.48
Women - $9.81 $10.28 $10.58
You Get So Alone at Times - $11.61 $12.15 $12.52

Powells - eReader/.lit
Beerspit Night and Cursing - $12.38
Betting on the Muse - $12.38
Bone Palace Ballet - $12.38
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - $11.49
Dangling in the Tournefortia - $11.49
Factotum - $8.83
Ham On Rye - $9.72
Hollywood - $11.49
Hot Water Music - $12.38
Living On Luck- $12.38
Love is a Dog From Hell - $11.49
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck - $10.61
Open All Night - $12.38
Play the Piano Drunk - $10.61
Post Office - $9.72
Pulp - $10.61
Reach for the Sun Vol. 3 - $12.38
Screams from the Balcony - $11.49
Septuagenarian Stew - $12.38
South of No North - $10.61
The Captain is Out to Lunch - $10.61
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses - $10.61
The Last Night of the Earth Poems - $12.38
The Movie 'Barfly' - $9.72
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps - $12.38
The People Look Like Flowers At Last - $9.72
The Pleasures of the Damned - $17.71
The Roominghouse Madrigals - $10.61
War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 - $11.49
What Matters Most is How Well - $12.38
Women - $9.72
You Get So Alone at Times - $11.49

Sony eBook Store
Beerspit Night and Cursing - $12.56
Betting on the Muse - $12.56
Bone Palace Ballet - $12.56
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - $11.66
Dangling in the Tournefortia - $11.66
Factotum - $8.96
Ham On Rye - $9.85
Hollywood - $11.66
Hot Water Music - $12.56
Living On Luck- $12.56
Love is a Dog From Hell - $11.66
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck - $10.75
Open All Night - $12.56
Play the Piano Drunk - $10.75
Post Office - $9.72
Pulp - $10.75
Reach for the Sun Vol. 3 - $12.56
Screams from the Balcony - $11.49
Septuagenarian Stew - $12.56
South of No North - $10.75
The Captain is Out to Lunch - $10.75
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses - $10.75
The Last Night of the Earth Poems - $12.56
The Movie 'Barfly' - $9.72
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps - $12.56
The People Look Like Flowers At Last - $9.72
The Pleasures of the Damned - $13.96
The Roominghouse Madrigals - $10.75
War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 - $11.66
What Matters Most is How Well - $12.56
Women - $9.85
You Get So Alone at Times - $11.66

Amazon Kindle
Beerspit Night and Cursing - $9.99
Betting on the Muse - $9.99
Bone Palace Ballet - $9.99
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - $9.99
Dangling in the Tournefortia - $9.99
Factotum - $7.96
Ham On Rye - $8.76
Hollywood - $9.99
Hot Water Music - $9.99
Living On Luck- $9.99
Love is a Dog From Hell - $9.99
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck - $9.56
Open All Night - $9.99
Play the Piano Drunk - $9.56
Post Office - $8.76
Pulp - $9.56
Reach for the Sun Vol. 3 - $9.99
Screams from the Balcony - $9.99
Septuagenarian Stew - $9.99
South of No North - $9.99
The Captain is Out to Lunch - $9.56
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses - $9.99
The Last Night of the Earth Poems - $9.99
The Movie 'Barfly' - $8.76
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps - $9.99
The People Look Like Flowers At Last - $8.76
The Pleasures of the Damned - $9.99
The Roominghouse Madrigals - $9.56
War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 - $9.99
What Matters Most is How Well - $9.99
Women - $8.76
You Get So Alone at Times - $9.99
* Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast - $7.99

Again, Kindle has lower prices. Sometimes the discount is substantial, as when a book near $13.00 is smashed down to just $9.99. In addition, the Kindle Store has a book none of the others offer.

M. Dylan Raskin

M. Dylan Raskin

Fictionwise
No match

eReader
No match

MobiPocket
No match

ereadable
No match

ebooks.com
No match

Microsoft Reader
No match

Diesel
No match

Powells
No ebooks

Sony eBook Store
No match

Amazon Kindle
No ebooks

It's absolutely retarded that Raskin is not in e!

That even Kindle doesn't have him is surprising!

John Fante

John Fante

Fictionwise
No match

eReader
No match

MobiPocket
No match

ereadable
No match

ebooks.com
No match

Microsoft Reader
No match

Diesel
No match

Powells
No ebooks

Sony eBook Store
No match

Amazon Kindle
No ebooks

I have two words for this: It sucks.

Nathan Singer

Nathan Singer

Fictionwise
No match

eReader
No match

MobiPocket
No match

ereadable
No match

ebooks.com
No match

Microsoft Reader
No match

Diesel
No match

Powells
No ebooks

Sony eBook Store
No match

Amazon Kindle
No ebooks

Another writer whose books should be in e. Especially since they're from a small press. Small presses should be all over e!

John Straley

John Straley

Fictionwise
No match

eReader
No ebooks, but two collections with a Straley short story in each

MobiPocket
No match

ereadable
No match

ebooks.com
No match

Microsoft Reader
No match

Diesel
No match

Powells
No ebooks

Sony eBook Store
No ebooks, but two short stories for ninety-nine cents each

Amazon Kindle
No ebooks

This is frustrating. John Straley should be in e, dammit!

Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler

Fictionwise -eReader/Mobi/.lit
Full Dark House - $6.99
The Water Room - $18.95
Seventy-Seven Clocks - $6.99
Ten-Second Staircase - $6.99
White Corridor - $18.95

eReader
Full Dark House - $6.99
The Water Room - $18.95
Seventy-Seven Clocks - $6.99
Ten-Second Staircase - $6.99
White Corridor - $18.95

MobiPocket
Full Dark House - $6.99
The Water Room - $18.95
Seventy-Seven Clocks - $6.99
Ten-Second Staircase - $6.99
White Corridor - $18.95

ereadable -.lit/eReader
Full Dark House - $6.43
The Water Room - $16.67
Seventy-Seven Clocks - $6.43
Ten-Second Staircase - $6.43
White Corridor - $15.97

ebooks.com - eReader/.lit
Full Dark House - $6.99
The Water Room - $18.95
Seventy-Seven Clocks - $6.99
Ten-Second Staircase - $6.99
White Corridor - $18.95

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Fictionwise, ebooks, Diesel, Powells, depending on title

Diesel eBooks - Mobi/.lit/eReader
Full Dark House - $6.27 $6.57 $6.76
The Water Room - $16.98 $17.78 $18.31
Seventy-Seven Clocks - $6.27 $6.57 $6.76
Ten-Second Staircase - $6.99
White Corridor - $16.98 $17.78 $18.31

Powell's - eReader/.lit
Full Dark House - $6.20
The Water Room - $16.82
Seventy-Seven Clocks - $6.20
Ten-Second Staircase - $6.20
White Corridor - $16.82

Sony eBook Store
Full Dark House - $6.64
The Water Room - $6.64
Seventy-Seven Clocks - $6.64
Ten-Second Staircase - $6.64
White Corridor - $13.26

Amazon Kindle
Full Dark House - $5.59
The Water Room - $6.64
Seventy-Seven Clocks - $5.59
Ten-Second Staircase - $6.20
White Corridor - $9.99

All of these titles are part of the Bryant & May series.

Someone somewhere needs a beating.

What is The Water Room doing at over twice the price of the first one? It's the second book in the series!

Again, Kindle has the best prices! But at least Sony isn't overcharging for Water!

I expect the price of White Corridor to drop very, very soon as the next book is about to be released in hardcover.

The prices, once fixed, are favorable against print.

Victor Gischler

Victor Gischler

Fictionwise - Secure eReader/Mobi/MS Reader
Gun Monkeys - $4.99
The Pistol Poets - $6.99
Suicide Squeeze - $6.99
Shotgun Opera - $6.99

eReader
No match

MobiPocket
Gun Monkeys - $4.99
The Pistol Poets - $6.99
Suicide Squeeze - $6.99
Shotgun Opera - $6.99
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse - $11.99

ereadable - eReader/.lit
Gun Monkeys - $4.74
The Pistol Poets - $6.43
Suicide Squeeze - $6.43
Shotgun Opera - $6.43
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse - $11.03

ebooks.com - - eReader/.lit
Gun Monkeys - $4.99
The Pistol Poets - $6.99
Suicide Squeeze - $6.99
Shotgun Opera - $6.99

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Diesel and Powell's

Diesel eBooks - Mobi/.lit/eReader
Gun Monkeys - $4.72 $4.86 $5.51
The Pistol Poets - $6.27 6.57 $6.76
Suicide Squeeze - $6.27 6.57 $6.76
Shotgun Opera - $6.27 6.57 $6.76
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse - $11.66 $11.66 $11.66

Powell's - eReader/.lit
Gun Monkeys - $4.43 $4.43
The Pistol Poets - $6.20 $6.20
Suicide Squeeze - $6.20 $6.20
Shotgun Opera - $6.20 $6.20
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse - $10.64 $10.64

Sony eBook Store
Gun Monkeys - $6.64
The Pistol Poets - $6.64
Suicide Squeeze - $6.64
Shotgun Opera - $6.64
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse - $10.79

Amazon Kindle
Gun Monkeys - $3.99
The Pistol Poets - $5.59
Suicide Squeeze - $5.59
Shotgun Opera - $5.59
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse - $9.59

All of Gischler's books are in e. And the prices are OK. Close to paperback. (Go-Go is the latest; just out right now, thus the higher price.) This is good.

Kindle has the lowest prices again!

And Diesel's per-format pricing is bizarre.

The eBook Test Note #2

Now I see why I didn't have any URLs saved from yesterday's searches.

Many of the URLs are per-book-title, not search term!

I went through that level of URL detail for Ken Bruen to see what it would be like to do.

Bugger that! I'm not doing it again.

I've got some authors who have many titles and linking to each title at every ebook store would simply grind me into dust!

In addition, I'm not even going to link to the ebook stores. The Bruen listing has those ten. Maybe later I'll do a specific post with just the ten stores.

But for now, just let me get yesterday's ten results up.

Ken Bruen

Ken Bruen

Fictionwise - Secure Mobi
Killing of the Tinkers - $12.95
Priest - $13.95

eReader
Killing of the Tinkers - $12.95

MobiPocket
Killing of the Tinkers - $12.95
Priest - $13.95

ereadable
No match

ebooks.com
No match

Microsoft Reader
Refers to Fictionwise - which only has Secure MobiPocket, not .lit!

Diesel eBooks
No match

Powell's
No ebooks

Sony eBook Store
Killing of the Tinkers - $11.86
Priest - $12.56

Amazon Kindle Store
The Dramatist - $4.99
Priest - $9.99
The Guards -$9.99
Killing of the Tinkers - $9.99
The Killing of the Tinkers - $6.23
Ammunition - $9.99
The Magdalen Martyrs -$9.99
Blitz - $9.99

This is just a shock. Why does Kindle have more Bruen books than the rest? And that's not even all Bruen books!

Fictionwise's search engine failed to show both Bruen books until I serendipitously clicked on his name in the one search result given! What did I say about Suck?

In addition, Bruen has two series: the Brant series and the Jack Taylor series.

No one -- not even Kindle -- has the complete Brant series. The Jack Taylor series begins with The Guards -- which only Kindle has! How screwy is that for readers?!!?

Prologue: The eBook Test

The release of the iPhone 3G, the introduction of the App Store, and the coming release of several eBook reading programs have caused me to wonder if it's finally time for me to go all-eBook.

Print books no longer appeal to me from a size and weight perspective. I've had to box up and move my books several times in my life and it's not something I'm willing to do again. For books that are all-text, a weightless electronic edition makes more sense than one that's printed on paper and weighs a pound or three.

I've compiled a big fat list of authors and books I need in e form. let's see what's available and at what price and from what place.

Some notes first:

1) I don't care for PDF and will not list those

2) Expect everything to be DRMed

3) Sony and Kindle are each a single file format

Update:

4) eReader and MobiPocket are also single format