Find out when p-books reach the Kindle—via the Mysteria service
The Mysteria service links up with your Amazon wish list and tells when paper books become available in the Kindle format. The owner is the aggressively nonprofit and proudly anarchistic Oscura Press. Mysteria also points to new MP3s or videos of titles you want. Some ballyhoo:
Mysteria will listen to what you say you like. And then she’ll start looking for it. Every day. Not only is she constantly on-call, but she constantly works in the background. While you go on with your life, she’s searching & searching & searching for what you told her to look for — because honestly, do you really have the time to keep going to Amazon to see if The Magic Mountain is finally in Kindle format, or perhaps the best-seller you just heard about? How much longer before a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode can be downloaded? And look, you’d be happy to discover music tracks for the Ink Spots, even though you’d never admit to being a 1930s music buff….
Suggestion for Amazon competitors: Why not add a similar service? For that matter, I can imagine Amazon itself co-opting Mysteria. Buying it out, even? From the anarchists? You never know. One more reason to drop the DRM, Jeff? Just joking. Actually Amazon could handle the tech itself and make the service work without requiring your wishlist to be public, one apparent negative of Mysteria.
(Via MobileRead.)
April 8th, 2009 at 12:41 am
Great post – I tried the service recently and one of my books popped up – wow!
Thanks!