It’s hard not to be impressed by how elegant and profitable the app store model is. Let’s start by looking at a few ways in which an App Store is the opposite of Book Publishing. App Store as Anti-Publishing Book Publishing really starts to show its age when you contrast it with an App Store. Make money off of successes and [...]
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Am in the middle of reading books on the iPad and the Kindle DX to write a review/comparison and it struck me that the iBooks app is completely unsuited to reading. In fact iBooks almost seems to be built to discourage reading. Luckily there’s a happy ending. Let’s start with the bad part. Why iBooks is rather unsuitable [...]
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Here are some free books for Sunday – Wounded Healer by Donna Fleisher. Rated 4.5 stars on 8 reviews. Flooded with panic, two words burst through Erin-s mind: GET HELP. She ran for the door, but someone grabbed her, twisted her arm behind her. Erin’s shriek was smothered by a cold, clammy hand. Shhh — Breath [...]
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It’s been exactly 6 months since my first Kindle vs Nook review and now that we have Nook Upgrade 3 out it’s time to review Kindle vs Nook one more time. August 3rd Update: Please check out the Kindle 3 vs Nook review for a more up to date comparison. The Kindle is $189 and available from Amazon [...]
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Let’s start with an interesting 2 person experiment that Jason Perlow at ZDNet carried out. It involved two people reading books and experiencing reading on both iPad and Kindle in various lighting conditions. They then note down their thoughts on whether the eInk screen of the Kindle really is better for reading than the iPad’s LCD. ZDNet’s 2 person reading experiment [...]
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