- $259 Kindle 2 – My Kindle 2 Review based on 6 months of use.
- Kindle DX - Kindle DX Review including videos and pictures.
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Here are some free books for your kindle -
Here are some good kindle book deals -
Another book that’s doing really, really well is The PostMistress by Sarah Blake – It’s $9.99 and rated 4 stars on 34 reviews.
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Engadget and Zol report on the really interesting Cube eReader. It’s so interesting it might not exist (they have a pretty girl on the poster instead of the eReader – apparently she comes with in-built WiFi).
Cube eReader – the details
Let’s first trapeze through Engadget’s description of the Cube eReader’s features (with some details from Zol thrown in) -
A commenter, UMPCman, points out that there are lots of great reading software for WinMo -
Because there are a number of excellent platforms for book reading on WinMo
-uBook
-Adobe Reader Mobile (the little known version 2.5 is excellent!)
-Microsoft Reader
-Mobipocket
-probably others I’ve not used enough to remember.
It’s a valid point. Both Adobe Reader and Microsoft Reader are pretty good.
Zol and Google Translate tell us more about Cube
Google has been working on a BabelFish Phone that translates speech in real-time.
Let’s hope it’s nothing like this -
This configuration of products in the market generally 3000-4000 yuan, but only 999 per, so that the total number of old e-book vendors misfiring.
CUBE electronic products, profits as a terminator, its strong exposure to Many users were waiting.
IPHONE used in capacitive touch screen, so that many users see a more beautiful look.
If Cube eReader ‘profits as a terminator’ it has my vote as the coolest eReader ever.
A little on Cube
Cube is apparently a company that manufactured the Artifact C30 High Fidelity system in collaboration with ‘the world’s most famous audio processing company’ BBE Corp.
They then decided to design an eReader that ‘intended to be shocking’ (again a translation).
Hey, if Bridgestone can design an eReader, so can we.
Everyone wants to release an eReader
The new craze among technology companies all over the world is to release a generic eReader and to make it virtually indistinguishable from every other eReader.
Koobe JinYong Reader with Neonode Touch technology
Neonode and Koobe are combining for a 6″ eReader -
Neonode sound like an interesting company - they say their zForce screens are being integrated into mobile phones, mobile internet devices, ebook readers, and Tablet PCs.
Yinlips eReader
Engadget again - this time reporting on a 6″ touchscreen eReader from Yinlips with a FM radio with recording functions and 20 hours battery life.
The design is a rip-off of the iPad – down to the one single home button and the over-sized bezel around the screen.
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There are two very interesting articles out today -
As Publishers flex their muscles (which appeared out of nowhere making you wonder if Mr. Conte and BALCO were involved) you have to wonder exactly what will happen when the iPad arrives in March and eBook prices are pumped up to $14.99.
Considering the Possibilities – A $14.99 World
Publishers make out like Bandits and keep control
There are a few possibilities that would make Publishers happy -
So if $14.99 eBooks succeed or fail miserably Publishers have managed to achieve their desired outcome.
Publishers slow down the rate of growth of eBooks
This may be the likeliest outcome.
There are some cases in which $14.99 will neither be a victory nor a failure for Publishers. It’ll simply give them more time by slowing down the growth of eReaders and eBooks.
Any of these scenarios would, in effect, give Publishers a ton of time.
Publishers start losing sales to smaller Publishers and indie authors and piracy
These are the scenarios that Publishers seem not to have thought through -
Here Publishers would be in trouble. Not only would they be losing sales and credibility – they would also strengthen their enemies.
What are the probabilities of each scenario with $14.99?
That’s an exceedingly tough question and we’ll only know for sure when the $14.99 price goes into effect in March.
Here are some rough estimates (gut feel based on people’s responses) that are probabilities for each case – so they don’t add up to 100. A probability of 20% means that 20% of people are likely to do something.
People are very likely to do multiple things so predicting the net total impact is very hard.
The conclusion is really surprising -
Publishers are quite likely to come out ahead. Some of the more probable outcomes are very beneficial to Publishers -
Readers buying $14.99 books. Readers buying paper books instead of ebooks. eBook sales slowing out or dying. eReader sales declining.
What would really hurt Publishers is if lots of alternate sources for books sprang up at $9.99 and lower prices. That would require -
Publishers have made their move late but not too late. There still isn’t enough traction and most importantly the alternate sources of content just don’t produce enough high quality books.
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Amazon’s Encore Program just launched the Kindle version (along with paper book version) of Maria Murnane’s Perfect on Paper: The (Mis)Adventures of Waverly Bryson.
It’s rated 4.5 stars on 139 customer reviews – Please do see if it’s something that interests you.
Here’s what the author says -
I wrote this book for any woman who has ever had a really bad date or realized halfway through the work day that her skirt is on backwards.
You can read up more about Maria Murnane (and the other 2 Encore authors whose books release today) in this post describing Amazon Encore Authors’ backgrounds or on her blog.
Also released are -
The Better Amazon Encore does the lower eBook Prices Go
At the moment Random House and smaller publishers are the only ones sticking to $9.99. We basically end up with 4-5 of the Big 6 Publishers taking on all other Publishers for pricing.
If the Amazon Encore program does well then it creates a new sustainable and cheap source of content and it scares Publishers into either lowering their prices or keeping quality of eBooks high to justify the price. Perhaps even both.
It really helps if we buy any Encore titles that interest us – It gives Amazon the momentum to keep expanding the Encore program. These are generally good and very good authors – Amazon’s probably using some pretty detailed algorithms and pattern matching to figure out which authors are likely to be successful.
Do let us know if you really like any of the books (they do have pretty good reviews).
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Some cheap books, deals and samples from the Kindle Store -
And we have our Kindle Exclusive – Special Kindle Edition of The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker. It’s $7.99. Rated 4.5 stars by 342 people.
It seems like a great book so bought it – It’s about Listening to your own Intuition, looking for Survival Signals, and protecting yourself from Violence.
Some more good cheap books -
February is slow for free kindle books
There have been a lot of free religious themed books. However,
It seems everyone is waiting – for what?
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