As Amazon and Google battle in the realm of books, its worthwhile to dig a little deeper and see why this clash is important and why it might be just the first of many that’ll occur. Is Amazon consciously trying to become WalMart Online? Actually, Amazon already are WalMart. Fundamentally Amazon are moving towards – Becoming [...]
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What’s Better than the Baen Free Library and available for your Kindle/ Kindle 2? Before the answer, A Request: If you read these books and like them please do buy one or more of them to support Baen. Baen obviously are not prepared for a world where people can download books to their Kindles instead [...]
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More Kindle 2 links – Joe Wikert visited eInk and talks about all the prototypes he saw, including a color screen he describes as “very attractive”. At Kindle Chronicles, Len Edgerly interviews Pam McCarthy, deputy editor of The New Yorker, who talks about how the magazine decided to create a Kindle edition. Joanne Kaufman at the [...]
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There are a lot of really good articles that talk about what the future might hold for publishing (Amazon and the Kindle 2 feature prominently)- Steven Johnson’s ‘How the E-Book will change the way we read and write’. This one is getting a lot of buzz, and everyone (except for me, it seems) totally relates [...]
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Kindle 2 might be getting all the attention – However, it seems Xerox had ePaper a long, long time before Amazon came out with the Kindle. The future of things has a fascinating interview with Nicholas K. Sheridon, who invented a technology in 1974, while working at Xerox PARC Labs, that became the basis for [...]
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