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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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