(Update 9:20PM 1/31/2010) – Well, Amazon gave into MacMillan’s demands for higher prices. For the full story see the NYT article here. It remains to see what, if any fallout there is for the publisher or the ebook industry as a whole. Certainly, publishers own their content and can set the pricing for it, but I [...]
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A Reason to buy another Kindle cover
This morning I was greeted by the below email from Amazon: Dear Kindle User, We’re sending this note to remind you about proper attachment and use of your Kindle cover and about Amazon’s Kindle warranty. You can view instructions and illustrations here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200390460 ATTACHING THE COVER To install the Kindle, open the cover and lay [...]
READ MORE »Amazon to offer Kindle Development Kit
From Amazon Press Release: SEATTLE, Jan 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — (NASDAQ: AMZN)–For the past two years, Amazon has welcomed authors and publishers to directly upload and sell content in the Kindle Store through the self-service Kindle publishing platform. Today, Amazon announced that it is inviting software developers to build and upload active content that [...]
READ MORE »Kindle Updates, not just Kindle 3
A lot of folks are clamoring for a Kindle 3. Some want to bring the current crop of Kindles (US, Int’l) up to par with the nook, others to add multi-usage functionality and the rest seemingly because they believe that hardware should refresh every year. I’m not in any of the above camps. As far [...]
READ MORE »Where has all the Fantasy gone?
Don’t get me wrong, I love my vamps and shifters as much as the next gal (gal!?), but where have all the wizards and castles and political intrigue and precocious apprentices gone? There seems to be a serious lack of irritable dwarves and evil orcs. I am starving for a taste of real world building [...]
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