Ok, that explanation doesnt work.

I can copy/paste text, like a fanfiction story, straight off of the internet...put it into a Word document, and then emailing to the email address for my Kindle, and within a minute or two my document has been converted into a Kindle file. With all the formatting intact.

So, it's easy to convert text into the Kindle format...

I really do think it's the publishers that are keeping Amazon from publishing the Kindle versions of the books...and it's got to be related to money somehow... or they think people are hacking the e-books somehow when they come out to get rid of the DRM.

There was an article in some business section that I read lately which discussed the publishers going after Amazon for releasing books too soon.

The fast release dings their book sales and something is/was worked out so Amazon did not release so soon.

gmi

I dont know...I still go to bookstores and still see a lot of books flying off the shelves. I dont know how much the Kindle has affected that.

Maybe Amazon could wait a week after a hardcover release to release the Kindle version? I just think a 3 month wait is a bit excessive.

I think the publishers are being a bit...snippy. I think the Kindle helps books sales...the books are being bought, no matter if they're made of paper or if they're digitized. I just dont see why the publishers are being so difficult.

If they're worried about the books being pirated, I hate to tell them, but books have been pirated for quite a long time before the internet and the Kindle came around. I've talked to a few people on the Kindle Boards, and they've said that they know of people who will take a physical book, an X-acto knife, and a scanner and will sit while watching a movie and scan whole books into digital form to post on Bit-torrent (sp?)...

You can believe whatever you want, and be disgruntled. Have YOU ever submitted your work to Kindle? HAve YOU looked up their guidelines, compared them to an ink and paper publisher? I doubt it. I have, and I know the diff. You can copy and paste from one format to another -that does is not the same thing as reformatting for a totally different market.

Here's another thing - rights. Say Penguin published a book, you may not have electronic rights to Kindle it for X amount of time, if ever.

My uncle just published some of my grandfather's sermons to the Kindle. (he was a methodist minister) He really only did that I think so that my family could read them easily. My uncle only has a charge of $1 to download the sermons.

I thought it was cool to have a couple of Kindle books with my grandfather's name on them on my Kindle.