[kindlematt]

How is the selection of scholarly books available on Kindle?

 

[Ann in Arlington]

I guess that depends on what you mean by scholarly. Non-fiction? Classic fiction?

Here's a link to all 1.9 million ebooks Amazon has available: http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks/b/ref=amb_link_355831402_48?ie=UTF8&node=154606011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=0QXR25W601HSHS42GCQ4&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1498637762&pf_rd_i=1286228011

You'll see a listing of categories down the side. . . . .

 

[kindlematt]

I guess I mean books that you could use for a thesis. I will check the list. Thanks!!

 

[Ann in Arlington]

Probably the best thing to do is, if you know the book title, you search to see if it's available. . . . I think history and literature is pretty well represented.  Science and Math less so because of the more complex formatting required.  Newer books are more likely to be available than older titles.  But I honestly haven't done a thorough study so I could be way off.

 

[jackz4000]

If you are writing your thesis your thesis adviser or thesis coach would usually help with accepted scholarly papers and book sources to cite. Your university should also have a good library and the librarians there will help you. Also, many university libraries have JSTOR where you can view many scholarly papers not generally available to the public.

Some scholarly papers and books can be very pricey to buy. Depends on the subject.

 

[J. W. Rolfe]

Scholarly books? It largely depends on the press, who wrote it, and when it was published. Just about every university press is releasing ebook versions of monographs. Depending on the circulation and sales, previously published works are also being digitized. Unfortunately, there is still no substitute for the library of a Carnegie One school. If it's one thing I miss with Amazon and ebooks, it's perusing the stacks and finding things I wasn't necessarily looking for.

 

[PaulLev]

Scholarly books? It largely depends on the press, who wrote it, and when it was published. Just about every university press is releasing ebook versions of monographs. Depending on the circulation and sales, previously published works are also being digitized. Unfortunately, there is still no substitute for the library of a Carnegie One school. If it's one thing I miss with Amazon and ebooks, it's perusing the stacks and finding things I wasn't necessarily looking for.

I miss that, too. But the digital world has its own kind of serendipity - like, for example, when you misspell a book's title or an author's name in a search.