YouTube EDU Educational Hub and Academic Earth Video Lectures

YouTube launched YouTube EDU yesterday (on March 26th). Its an educational portal that brings together quality educational content available on YouTube (and we don’t mean Coke + Mentos = Cola Apocalypse).   The features of YouTube EDU include - Videos from colleges and universities including over 200 full-length video lectures,  and many complete courses. A school directory [...]

Kindle News + Links – end March

Lots of news and updates related to Kindle 2 and Kindle -   Metaphysical book publisher Llewellyn Worldwide adds 100 books for the Kindle covering astrology, tarot and more. Powell’s Books and The Morning News have a March Madness of Books tournament. RIM will be launching their app store, the BlackBerry App World, on April 1 (also rumors [...]

Fujitsu Flepia Color eBook Reader

Fujitsu’s Flepia comes in at such a high price point ($1,000 approximately) that its instantly out of the reckoning as a Kindle Killer. There are however some interesting things about it, and there’s a chance that as Fujitsu scale-up they can cut down the price enough to be a threat. Given that eInk screens might not [...]

The Gap between $0 and $9.99

Taking a look at the bestsellers in the Kindle Store is an interesting exercise with a huge number of books at the $9.99 price point and, at the other extreme, prices clustered at $0 for free books and public domain books.  There are two other sweet spots that will gradually become very important – The $4 [...]

Free Kindle 2 Contest + Free Kindle 2 Book

First, the free Kindle 2 contest (which is simple + straightforward like contests ought to be) – Till April 5th, help Image Commmunications find a new name and get a free Kindle 2 (if your name suggestion is chosen). http://www.helpusnameus.com Next, a free book via the official Amazon blog, as yet another author realizes the best way [...]

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