Yet more free books for your Kindle this July (the first courtesy the official kindle blog) – James Patterson’s The Angel Experiment is free until the end of the year. It’s book 1 in the Maximum Ride series and has a 4 star rating across 272 reviews. Romance Novel Killing Joe by Marie Treanor. Paranoia by Josph Finder is [...]
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Google keeps thumbing its nose at Amazon and the Kindle. This time its a ’10 Days in Google Books’ game with a few twists (courtesy Paid Content) – Themed Questions (5) every day. You don’t have to answer to enter. Answer the questions and write a brief creative entry on the topic of books in 100 years. [...]
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Update: Matthew from Vook stopped by and very patiently explained what they’re trying to do. It’s shifted my attitude from ‘this is crazy’ to ‘let’s give the first few vooks a chance – perhaps there’s more to it than I realize’. Here’s an email that Vook (the new Book Evolution start-up) sent me – Subject: Too [...]
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RocketBook is Sam Cooke’s A Change is Gonna Come – Kindle 1 is Nirvana and unkempt appearance and rejection of form in favor of function. Although I wasnt there He said I was his friend Which came as a surprise I spoke into his eyes — I thought you died alone A long long time [...]
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The Internet is atwitter with talk of two potential Kindle rivals – the Samsung SNE-50K and Apple’s 10″ Netbook/eReader. The theme with Kindle competitors these days is testing our ability to wait for gratification - Plastic Logic keeps talking about its eReader and it won’t even launch till next year. Now Samsung is talking about its eReader that’s only [...]
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