Jan 27 2012
Google has changed some of its policies regarding how it is collecting data from users. A couple of good links on the subject include the WSJ write up and the EFF write up at the USA Today. WSJ: In sum, Google is tracking every move you make and connecting it together. If you watch a [...]
Dec 22 2011
News The Kindle App for iOS has been updated so that you can now email yourself documents (mobi, pdf, word) and read those files on your Kindle App. This feature used to be only for Kindle device owners and it is one of my favorite features offered by Amazon. Amazon gives you an email address [...]
Dec 19 2011
News Not as awesome as the stickman, but if you type in “Let it snow” in the google search box, Google has a little easter egg for you. ****** Barnes & Noble coupon for $20 off a Nook Color or Nook Simple Touch. ****** In searching for a wall organizer for my kitchen, I [...]
Dec 16 2011
In a move of smart and generous customer service, Harlequin is replacing everyone’s LIT and Mobi purchases with ePub copies. If you recall, earlier this year Harlequin announced that it was eliminating support for LIT/Mobi purchases. I had hoped that like Fictionwise, Harlequin would offer this switch out for customers and Harlequin did. As of [...]
Dec 8 2011
In March 2011, EU raided publishers’ offices looking for evidence of price fixing. Despite this, the agency model began to roll out this summer and now EU has officially opened an investigation into price fixing. “The Commission will in particular investigate whether these publishing groups and Apple have engaged in illegal agreements or practices that [...]
Nov 28 2011
UPDATE: Another big CyberMonday deal. Buy.com is offering the Kobo Touch with special offers at 69.99. ***** All Romance Ebooks is running their annual survey. They use this survey, in part, to present at the Digital Book World and other tech conferences. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Romance-eReading ***** All Romance eBooks Cyber Monday sale is a 50% rebate on [...]
Nov 27 2011
When Amazon first announced the Kindle Touch line of readers I was pretty indifferent about it. I mean they looked nice, but I was perfectly happy with my Kindle 3 (now the Kindle Keyboard) and my older eInk devices (Kindle 2, Cybook Opus & Sony PRS-505) and saw no real need for anything else. So I [...]
Nov 7 2011
Barnes and Noble held its press conference today to announce the new Nook tablet and price reductions for the Nook Color and Nook Touch WiFi. The details were actually leaked last week but there are a few new details. Physically, it looks exactly the same as a NookColor. For the Nook Tablet, the battery usage [...]
Nov 3 2011
If you own a Kindle device (as opposed to using an App) AND you are a Prime member, you can take advantage of Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. It has about 5,000 titles in there and it’s all non agency books. While Agency publishers (and others) are balking at the potential loss of revenue, I would [...]
Nov 1 2011
Freebies from Samhain: Freebie for month of November: Touching Lace by Anne Rainey | Amazon | nook Freebie from November 1 to Nov 14: Carinian’s Seeker by T.J. Michaels | Amazon | nook ****** Galley Cat reports that a self published author offered a free sample at BN, Amazon discovered this and lowered the price to his book to free. Part of Amazon’s contract is [...]
Oct 19 2011
EFF, a watchdog for internet privacy rights, questioned Amazon about SILK and the use of data to create predictive web browsing patterns. According to the answers given by Amazon to EFF, Amazon does not intercept encrypted traffic and it logs only the URL requested, the timestamp, and token identifying the session. EFF deems this to [...]
Oct 17 2011
Congress is asking Amazon to explain its SILK service. SILK is the service that Amazon will be using to speed up browser access on its tablet. Rather than spend the money on building a faster processor like Apple’s A5, Amazon has developed SILK which takes in web content and then optimizes it for the Kindle [...]
Oct 16 2011
Kindle’s Personal Documents Service (PDS hereinafter) is Amazon’s version of sideloading. Using their servers, Amazon would accept documents mailed to a kindle.com address and convert them into a format readable by Kindle devices. According to the help page, PDS is not available for Canadian users. I have no idea why. I am sorry Canada! In [...]
Oct 13 2011
Amazon launched its science fiction, fantasy and horror line called 47North. It’s lined up some big names in scifi with the launched of 15 books “including ‘The Mongoliad: Book One,’ the first in the ambitious, five-book, collaborative Foreworld series led by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. All of these books will be available to English [...]
Sep 12 2011
I didn’t intend to post this link but I had multiple send this to my inbox and tweet the link to me. As a result of this post is that the author’s name and books are viral. It’s a smart marketing strategy for her self published books but probably places any future publisher contracts in [...]
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