I received the following email from Adam McDiarmid: Hi Paul, I was wondering if you or someone on Teleread could answer the following question: "Why is agency pricing not consistent between ebook sellers?" For example, due to the movie coming out, I checked out the novel The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly. It was published six years ago in 2005 and is sold on Amazon as a MMPB for $5.60. A quick search of ebook sellers using inkmesh provided the following results: Diesel: 9.64 Amazon, Sony, BooksonBoard, Apple, B&N, Kobo, and Borders: 9.99 CyberRead: 10.00 Powell.com: 12.42 ebooks.com: 13.99 This book is published by Hachette and since that...

Received the following question. I certainly don't know the answer. To paraphrase the email: One can read a Gutenberg mobi ebook on the Kindle by simply emailing it to the Kindle's address and having it sent to the machine. However, you can't use this method to email a Gutenberg mobi ebook to the Kindle software on your iPhone or iPad. How can you get the Gutenberg ebook to the Kindle software on the iPhone or iPad - other than by buying the book from Amazon. The reason for this is to be able to keep the book in...

Got the following email from Phil Keeler: Is there a way to do this with Calibre or any other conversion program you know about? ...

Received the following email. Can anyone help Elihu: Dear Paul I'm looking for an epub converter (from wors - that's what I call word) which does Hebrew. Can you help or suggest who to ask? Thank you Elihu ...

We haven't had a question for Does Anybody Know for a while, so while I'm publishing this question I'm also taking the opportunity to remind our readers that they can feel free to send their questions to me for publication - and hopefully for an answer. I received the following question from Justin Loutsch: I took my laptop with me to Borders the other day to try out the Kobo device with ubuntu linux and caliber, and it worked great. I was able to transfer 3 books with no problems, but when it came time to view them I had...

For those of us who've been around the Internet for quite a while, are you starting to feel old yet? From BBS's on a slowwww dial-up modem to the hyper-crazed, graphics-intensive, social-media world of today, it's been quite a wild ride. I remember hanging out in the computer lab on campus with rows and rows of the old IBM machines staring silently back at me, with nary a web browser on them! However, today's post isn't about me getting all teary-eyed about scratchy modems and spaghetti piles of network...

Received the following question from librarian Ned Heeger-Brehm: I follow your blog with great interest and I particularly appreciate the sales information you pass along. For my own clarification, when the Association of American Publishers report that “Ebook sales up 176.6% in 2009” does that include eaudibooks or just ebooks? I’ve wondered the same thing about the IDPF statistics reported at www.openbook.org. ...

A reader, Edward, posted this as a comment, and it seemed like a good question to pose as a “Does Anybody Know” column. I am a specialist author of business books who self-publishes. I sell direct yet with 2 million copies sold in 20 languages I would say I am good at what I do. I have not sold on Amazon. I have not sold digitally. ...

Mary McManus would like to know: whether there is any way on Tuesdays when most new books are released to get a list of all new Kindle releases for that date? I have zero interest in "most popular" and lists by price. Just want to know what are the new releases? Reminder: please send me any questions you need answered....

[Note: This comment from “Adan” seemed to merit a reprint as a “Does Anybody Know” column. I’ve sent him a Google Wave invitation myself.] I was using Yahoo Groups (they bought and crippled Dutch “Clubs” software, while Google Groups is even poorer; all quite outdated) and a little Drupal and Mediawiki site setup for some information freedom activist news. Most issues could be done in Drupal and/or Mediawiki. But now there is Wave… Then my girlfriend and I both have some stories to write books about. She about (extreme) personal experiences and I about some political murder research....

The following question was emailed to me by Raymond: I simply CANNOT get Barnes & Noble's eReader software (new and old versions) to open any EPUB files. What am I doing wrong? Technorati Tags: EPUB ...

The following question came from Piet van Oostrum: Does anybody know: How are the rules for international copyright? My question is triggered by the following phrase on uploaded ebooks in the mobile read forum: This work is in the Canadian public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. It may still be under copyright in some countries. If you live outside Canada, check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work. I can understand the redistribute part but I have some doubts on...