Amazon announced that they would be implementing a Kindle book lending program a while ago and it’s finally made it. I was looking forward to this program in order to suggest books for my sisters and a few friends who are all Kindle owners. I was also hoping that they added a feature or two [...]
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What the ebook Agency model did for me
Well it seems that the dust has settled in the aftermath of the inception of the agency model pricing on ebooks. There were calls (from customers) for boycotts, tagging efforts on Amazon, claims of the end of Amazon monopolies (by publishers/authors) and conflicting ‘fact reports’ by all. I have to admit, the whole thing just [...]
READ MORE »Kindle News: Random House pulling TTS
Per the Random House website, Text-to-Speech will be pulled for their books. Random House Publishers: The Crown Publishing Group - Broadway | Crown | Crown Business | Crown Forum | Clarkson Potter | Doubleday Business | Doubleday Religion | Harmony | Potter Craft | Potter Style | Three Rivers Press | Shaye Areheart Books | Waterbrook Multnomah Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - Alfred A. Knopf | Anchor Books | Doubleday | Everyman’s Library | Nan A. Talese |Pantheon Books | Schocken Books | Vintage The Monacelli Press Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine Books | Bantam [...]
READ MORE »Kindle Book Licenses – Clarification
A couple of days ago, I blogged about emailing Customer Service on the six device limit and what to do when I reach the 7th Kindle device. Just so you know, I am up to 3 devices, a Kindle 1, a Kindle 2 and an iPhone. I’ll be at 5 with one more iteration of [...]
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I sent the following to Amazon Customer Service today. I understand that Amazon is trying to ‘get this right’, but sometimes feel like the right hand isn’t talking to the left. I’m also wondering on what mandates are making it down to the software development group. Before I begin, note that I own a Kindle [...]
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