Amazon released Kindle for Blackberry yesterday and it’s a good time to come back to the advantages and disadvantages of making Kindle software and eBooks available on various devices. Here’s what Amazon is offering with Kindle for Blackberry – US only. Supported devices include Bold 9000, Bold 9700, Curve 8520, Curve 8900, Storm 9530, Storm 9550, [...]
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It’s amazing that as the Internet has evolved we’ve done precious little to improve the readability of various sites. Readability changes that. The Internet is getting worse and worse for reading Instead of it becoming easier and easier to read websites it’s becoming tougher and tougher - There are more and more ads – including advertisements hiding in content and [...]
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Keep running into Apps that turn the iPhone into an entirely different device and just add a ton to its value proposition. It’s finally made me realize - eReader Apps are going to be big and they are going to destroy companies that don’t have apps. Don’t know how eReader companies fail to see the huge benefits [...]
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As the Kindle grows in popularity the Kindle eco-system is exploding. NorthJersey.com covers one success story - Eric Fisherman who is the maker of the Persicope Book Cover and Light. The Kindle Periscope Story It’s a captivating account with a great back-story - Eric Fisherman acquired rights in 2006 to sell the Periscope, which his father, Carl Fisherman, invented more [...]
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If we envision an ideal future for Publishing it might look something like this - Authors. Publishers (when Authors choose to engage them). A Platform that facilitates creation, editing, buying, and distribution of books. Readers. We would want an equitable distribution of profits - The Platform gets 10-30%, the Publishers get what Authors deem proper, and authors get the rest. There’s [...]
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