Comments on: Kindle Vs Stanza? Amazon buys Stanza and kills the contest http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-buys-stanza-and-kills-the-contest/ Kindle Review, Kindle Fire Review, New Kindle Review, Kindle 4 Review Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:22:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kaelin http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-buys-stanza-and-kills-the-contest/#comment-28583 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:01:36 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=3146#comment-28583 Or you could be a publisher like Baen, and promote your own distribution which is compatible with Kindle, stanza, nook, and a host of other devices. True, it’s a dedicated market, and it’s not quite as easy to buy books through a device- but it is possible. I love buying my books from Baen. Not only do they support their authors, but I get high-quality content with lower digital prices too!

]]> By: Children don’t make your hair grey, but DRMed eBooks do – Ert's Blog http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-buys-stanza-and-kills-the-contest/#comment-21563 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:04:38 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=3146#comment-21563 [...] announced that they would support DRM ePub on the iPhone, but a couple months later they were bought by Amazon and quietly cancelled those [...]

]]> By: Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-buys-stanza-and-kills-the-contest/#comment-18874 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:45:33 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=3146#comment-18874 [...] Addendum: One wonders what will become of Stanza now that Amazon (makers of Kindle) have bought the parent company. More here. [...]

]]> By: The Time Machine « JBStart http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-buys-stanza-and-kills-the-contest/#comment-17779 Mon, 17 May 2010 15:07:13 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=3146#comment-17779 [...] bladeren, wisselen tussen dag- en nachtweergave en boeken downloaden vanuit de app zelf. Hopelijk laat Amazon de app nog een poosje in leven… Tags: apps, Boeken, iPhone, Science-FictionBoeken, Geek stuff, Media, [...]

]]> By: John http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-buys-stanza-and-kills-the-contest/#comment-8261 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:26:59 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=3146#comment-8261 While the big publishers squabbled, and delayed, and refused to release global digial rights, and fretted over piracy, Amazon have swept in and taken the game away for the US e-book buying public. However out here in the rest of the world, it is still easier to find a pirated copy of an ebook and load it onto any reader than to actually buy one legally. The prices for legit copies are still ridiculous too. I bought a joe Haldeman ebook for my stanza app on my phone, and after the exchange from US $ rate it cost me NZ$10 more than buying the paper version.
I’ve now managed to get a US billing address though, and Kindle for iPhone, so I can actually buy content now, but being encrusted with DRM, I will probably go back to the other download model, and all the publishers loose out.

]]> By: Планета е-книг » Blog Archive » Amazon нанёс удар конкуренту Kindle и от Sony и от Mac http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-buys-stanza-and-kills-the-contest/#comment-5151 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:43:57 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=3146#comment-5151 [...] Kindle Vs Stanza? Amazon buys Stanza and kills the contest   от ireaderreview.com [...]

]]> By: Erik John Bertel http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-buys-stanza-and-kills-the-contest/#comment-3220 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:27:47 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=3146#comment-3220 There is more than one threat to Amazon! As the author of the Flores Girl: The Children God Forgot novel, my eBook is now a featured work at Wattpad.com, which is a free competitor to Stanza, and I have to say that the reader response has been overwhelming to my novel. People like the convenience of their iPhone and they really don’t want to carry another device around so Amazon is basically hedging their bets with this acquisition. People also don’t like being locked into one company unless it’s Apple of course.

Cheers,
Erik John Bertel
floresgirl.com

]]> By: Countering Amazon’s Jeff D. Rockefeller: Open source software, open distribution and D.C. lobbying could be the best strategies for large publishers | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-buys-stanza-and-kills-the-contest/#comment-3218 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:25:08 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=3146#comment-3218 [...] Shoppers may not even find the nonKindle version of my novel, because they didn’t type in the “the.” And within the Amazon search engine, my iTouch’s Safari browser falsely tells me that The Solomon Scandals isn’t available in Kindle format. Innocent accidents? Or sleazy efforts to promote the Kindle edition over my p-edition and to aid the K machine in its battle with the iPhone and Touch in the e-reading area? Who’s to say? I just know that Amazon isn’t the optimal outlet for me and my small publisher, and perhaps not for other houses. If something underhanded is going on in the just-given cases, do we really need Standard Oil redux? Competition-killing, in the most obnoxious ways, was part of John D. Rockefeller’s MO even if he at times used goons—rather than simply buyouts in the Lexcycle-Stanza vein. [...]

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