Google Reinfeld's 1001 Sacrifices. It's not an e-book, but it's a free pgn collection of all the puzzles in there if you need some offline training material, and there are no copyright issues, so don't feel guilty
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Jan 2, 2010
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Thank you very much, I will google it!
Thank you friends!
Jan 6, 2010
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I'm a huge fan of the everyman books. I think their quality is generally very good. I know Emms, Palliser, McDonald, and Ward are really good authors. I especially like their Starting Out collection as I'm still a patzer. They are generally $20US.
Also not a book, but if you like puzzles try here:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/problemiste/
It's a small program, and you can download tens of thousands of problems arranged in collections. The free version is highly functional.
On thing I've noticed when building up a chess books collection is that chess books seem to be disproportionately expensive in comparison to other similar sized, similar formatted books.
I think Everyman should be selling the e-books at about half of what the paper books sell for. The e-books have no printing costs, distribution costs, retailer's markup. They can presumably be edited at any time without requiring a reprint. And they are arguably more useful to players.
If Everyman did slash the price by half from the paper books, they'd sell like hotcakes!
Jan 7, 2010
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All books are relatively inexpensive considering the amount of work needed to put them together (I mean the author's work) 
Yes, I agree with the costs, really is far less expensive, as no paper, taxes, etc is included.
By the way thank you for the links, I am visiting each one...!
I publish and retail ebooks for more than a decade - yes that long Some publishers do discount their ebooks, others don't. When it comes to Everyman Chess, I think they are pricing their ebooks pretty fairly at $19.95 (except the ones by Kasparov for $30 but these are much larger volumes).
If you are interested in chess ebooks you should take a look at the offering we have at Lybrary.com: http://www.lybrary.com/games-chess-c-23_24.html
We have close to 100 chess ebooks including all the Everyman Chess ebooks and we will be frequently adding new chess ebooks.
Mar 20, 2010
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@lybrary
a question - do you expect versions being made for the iPad and other tablets coming out?
Yes, I am quite sure that there will be at some time a ChessBase viewer for the iPad. I also think that there is a good chance that we will see viewers for some of the e-ink based readers, particularly those with open designs like the txtr from Germany. Also Amazon is opening up the Kindle for apps. It is therefore not unlikely that the support of specialty formats will increase.
Thank you friends, I will see and let you know !
Ceej wrote:
I'm a huge fan of the everyman books. I think their quality is generally very good. I know Emms, Palliser, McDonald, and Ward are really good authors. I especially like their Starting Out collection as I'm still a patzer. They are generally $20US.
Wow... I'm a huge Everyman hater! They're money-grabbers... they over-price their books while they cut costs on book production values, including editing... Which is NOT to say that all their books are bad, content wise. It all depends on the author. I agree with you about Emms and McDonald... they're both very good IMO. Ward I'm so-so about, but I think he's more of an openings guy and I don't really go in for openings books. But IMHO the production and design (the layout, paper, typesetting, proofreading) of all Everyman books is dreadful... and some of their books are just dreck from top to bottom, content and book design. I wrote Everyman's office hatemail one of their titles was so horrid. Every one of their books is flowed-thru a generic Page-Maker type template. It's so ugly and miserably generic I can't enjoy their books even when the content is good. Their production is, to anyone who knows publishing, amateurish and cheap.
I can't believe those jokers ended up the publisher for Kasparov's books. What a great pity. Batsford, for example, would have done a beautiful job. It would be really expensive... but it would be beautiful.
"Kobo" has a number of free chess e-books...check it out.
Apr 3, 2010
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tchess Pro on the iPad.
http://www.tchessgame.com/pro_ipad_ss.php
I have Fritz Chess in my iPhone, and if they release a version for iPad, that alone will be reason enough to buy an iPad. Fritz Chess gives you import-access to the Chessbase database, letting you download games. I've been reading chess books, while following the game in the book on my iPhone, with the analysis mode engaged - great to go along with the annotations in the book with move-by-move, and then being able to play out the variations.
Nice reason to buy a Ipad, thank you Steinwitz, I was looking for an excuse!
Apr 21, 2010
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Hi,
I own a eReader and I programmed a tool to make ebooks of tactical problems. Take a look at http://sites.google.com/site/clonfsp/cpegen
Does anyone knows where in chess.com are the EBOOKS of openings or puzzles or similar readings, of course to read off-line, to be used on a e-reader, I live outside of the USA, so importing chess books is not easy, ebooks are the answer for the rest of us!
Any help welcome......!