Random House’s Suvudu Library added a few new, free kindle books to their library - Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham (the first book in The Axis of Time series). Its well reviewed with a 4 stars average across 140 reviews. Elric: the Stealer of Souls by Michael Moorcock. There’s actually a movie being made about Elric, and there are a lot more [...]
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Update, June 1, 2009: Kindle DX release date has been confirmed to be June 10, 2009. Stay tuned for a full kindle dx review and comparisons with the Kindle 2. There have been a lot of comments recently asking whether waiting for the Kindle DX is a good idea (or to just get Kindle 2 now). These [...]
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Google is supporting a change in UK rules that would allow newspapers to merge. They explain their reason for supporting newspaper mergers – “In relation to Google’s involvement in this debate, Google still needs original content to index if it is to remain useful, and much of this content comes from traditional publishers. If they are weak, [...]
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Amazon knocked down the price of this blog from $1.99 to $0.99 in case you were considering it. Like I said before – don’t really need the money – however, if you’d like to get it on your Kindle or Kindle 2 you can get it at a more reasonable price.
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A few recent articles have been claiming that Kindles, in particular the Kindle DX, will spark rampant book piracy. TechCrunch thinks Kindle DX will be a success because PDF support encourages rampant book piracy. Guardian goes as far as to say (in an extremely convoluted way) that piracy will help ebook sales. Here are a few random thoughts [...]
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