Given Kindle doesn't have much of a notion of a page which HTML construct are you using to contain a slide?
Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: [email protected] Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Steve Comstock <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 05/03/2012 21:56 Subject: Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On 3/5/2012 2:19 PM, Sevetson, Phil wrote: > Steve, Speaking strictly for myself, I like the idea of buying your material > in Kindle format. However, I'm not an AJAX coder. What materials are next/soon in your push for this? > > --Phil Sevetson > DB2 z/OS DBA Well, maybe one or two more papers, then I'd like to try putting a course up. For courses, we'll probably package just one or two chapters per book so people can buy just the parts they want / need. Still debating amongst ourselves about whether any courses we put out will have labs or not. Not sure what content to put up first; happy to take suggestions. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! > > Well, we're trying something new: looking at putting > content on Amazon.com for reading in Kindle's. The > details are below. > > But first, I want to point out right away: you don't > need to own a Kindle to read our content (or any other > eBook on Amazon, for that matter). > > * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the > Kindle app for PCs from Amazon; for free. There are > also Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, > and more. > > This is pretty cool in and of itself. I think this > requires you to establish a Kindle account (also > free). If you have an Amazon account you can > piggyback on that. > > Go to: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771 > > > Alternatively, you can use the Kindle cloud reader and > read Kindle books in your browser. > > See: > > https://read.amazon.com/about > > > ================================ > > So for right now, we're experimenting by putting some of > our free papers into Kindle format: first we write a > significant update to the paper, to add value; next we > convert the new version to Kindle format and publish > to Amazon in their eBook library. > > Our first foray into this brave new world is a major > rewrite of the paper "Coding AJAX Applications in z/OS": > > We've updated some content to reflect changes in the > RFC, we've added two new examples, including one that > uses POST and a php CGI to process the POSTed data; > I also made some editorial changes. > > The Amazon price is about 1/3 the price of just > purchasing the support files in our own Trainer's Friend > store, and the Amazon price _includes_ free access to > the support files, so you can download all the sample > HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your > own. > > > Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI > > > Let us know what you think of this experiment. > -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
