Many friends and readers have written to ask, so I thought I’d bump this note out of the comment thread. The new Kindle is terrific for books. But it doesn’t yet handle formatted text like screenplays well at all.
This is a sample of Go, converted from pdf:
(I’ve gotten roughly the same results when sending it in Word format.)
Are you an unemployed coder? A wanna-be web entrepreneur? Are you Nima?
Consider this a call to adventure. I’m envisioning a web service to which you could submit (or email) a screenplay pdf (or text file) and have it sent to your Kindle, nicely formatted. Charge a nickel for it, or just do it for free until Amazon buys you out.
