Let’s start with the two free books (one of which was free last year too) – Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure by Various Authors. It’s published by Simon & Schuster. Loving a Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney. It seems it’s been made free again as the author has a new book about [...]
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There are some people (the entire Press) who are jumping at the announcement that Kindle is adding social features in its 2.5 upgrade. They’re taking it to mean that the Kindle is evolving into a tablet – It’s not. Kindle is adding reading related social features – not Tablet features People see trigger words – Facebook, Twitter, Social, [...]
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Teleread link to a post at Laptop Mag that at first sounds really promising – eReader Speed Tests. They give this promisingly straightforward break-down – Amazon Kindle – 1 second page-turns. Sony Reader Daily Edition – 1 second page turns. iRex DR800SG – 1 second page turns. Alex eReader – 1.5 seconds. Barnes & Noble Nook [...]
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Amazon should consider taking a page from Steve Jobs’ strategy book and using it to defend their own closed Kindle ecosystem and lack of support for ePub. Here’s what Steve Jobs writes about Flash being ‘Open’ – First, there’s “Open”. Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as [...]
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At Techmeme there is a small amount of buzz about the new Kindle 2.5 upgrade. It’s revealing to see how the Press interpret the upcoming upgrade. The titles of the articles talking about Kindle 2.5 tell a story – Kindle Software Update Adds Twitter, PDF Zoom, Sharper Fonts Kindle jumps onto social network bandwagon with Twitter [...]
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