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Thursday News: A Zuckerberg becomes confused about Facebook’s privacy settings; Disposing of unwanted giftcards; an online private catalog for your books

Dec 27 2012

Thursday News: A Zuckerberg becomes confused about Facebook’s privacy settings; Disposing of unwanted giftcards; an online private catalog for your books

Randi Zuckerberg Is Just as Confused by Facebook Privacy as You Are – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, generally believes people should live their private lives publicly or at least that is how he runs Facebook with the privacy settings constantly changing and always requiring an opt in action by users to keep their information(…)

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Wednesday News: Sony Reader releases its iOS App; Britney Spears fiction; Amazon Prime goes monthly; EU to end Agency

Nov 7 2012

Wednesday News: Sony Reader releases its iOS App; Britney Spears fiction; Amazon Prime goes monthly; EU to end Agency

Sony brings Reader software and bookstore to iOS platform | ZDNet – Sony launches its Reader software for iThings. It might be one of the best OS reading apps available for ePub. You can read Adobe DRM’ed ePubs (and PDFs) along with non encrypted ePubs and PDFs.  You can create your own collections as well.(…)

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Privacy and eReading Part 2: Amazon, BN, Kobo & Sony

Jul 22 2012

Privacy and eReading Part 2: Amazon, BN, Kobo & Sony

  The following is a summary of the data collected by Amazon, BN, Kobo, and Sony.  According to the EFF charts compiled in 2010, the safest way to read is to download books to Adobe Digital Editions because ADE does not track your reading habits.  Your purchasing data, however, is still compiled by the various(…)

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Amazon’s Read Anywhere Is a Sad and Unfufilled Promise

Aug 28 2011

Amazon’s Read Anywhere Is a Sad and Unfufilled Promise

Amazon is supposedly the leader in ereading technology but from the Kindle devices to the web app to the desktop software, the reading experience is inconsistent and even crude. If not for the one click buy which Amazon had patented in September 1999, Amazon’s apathetic attitude toward the software and user reading experience may have(…)

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Dear Jane: What eBook Reading Apps Should I Use on the Laptop?

Jan 30 2011

Dear Jane: What eBook Reading Apps Should I Use on the Laptop?

Dear Jane: I was wondering if it would be possible for you to do a write up about what devices can download from each of these companies and what apps you would need to use. I know that on the Borders site they ask you to download the free Borders eBook app but I’m not(…)

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Jul 8 2009

Daily Links Round Up

Amazon is cutting off affiliates right and left, some due to taxing issues within the state, but it removed any affiliate fees for Kindle books; eliminated search related affiliate fees and not won’t pay for tweeted links. I’m of the opinion that Amazon is trying to strategically reduce any affiliate fees. USA Today had a(…)

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Jun 30 2009

Free Software

I thought this might be of interest to DA’s readership. The PC-compatible writing software, Liquid Story Binder, is on sale for 50% off today (June 30) only. http://daily-deals.iconico.com/software/liquid-story-binder/ Send to Kindle

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Calibre: The eBook Reader’s Best Friend, Part 1 of 2

Dec 28 2008

Calibre: The eBook Reader’s Best Friend, Part 1 of 2

Calibre is a software program that is developed by a devoted reader and brilliant programmer, kovidgoyal. The program is free and open source, available for MAC, Windows PC, and Linux users. This week I’m going to address Calibre as the eBook management tool, a program I think is a must for every ebook reader regardless(…)

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eBook Odds and Ends

Nov 9 2008

eBook Odds and Ends

I am still digesting and working on a post regarding the Google BookSearch Settlement.   If you have thoughts on it, feel free to email me (jane at dearauthor.com).   I’m fairly concerned about the future impacts and my initial feelings are ones of concern.   Today, though, I thought I would give some bullet point items about(…)

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The Great Blog Reading Aid

Sep 14 2008

The Great Blog Reading Aid

I have to confess I was totally shocked by Dear Author’s latest poll results. According to our small sampling, almost 3/4 of the Dear Author readers have no idea what a feed reader is. I figured that it was worth a Sunday post to talk about what a feed reader is and how blog readers(…)

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Jul 13 2008

REVIEW: Ereader and Bookshelf App for iPhone

You may not have heard, but Friday saw the release of the newest iPhone. It’s a 3G phone that sold for $199 (8 GB) and $299 (16 GB). Also released on Friday was the newest firmware for the iPhones and iTouches which made available third party applications for the first time*. Two of the third(…)

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Jul 10 2008

Books.app Becomes Bookshelf on the iPhone

Bookshelf is the pro creation of Zac Bedell who developed the very first ebook reader for the iPhone. It costs $9.99 and comes with a java based shelfserver which provides a fairly easy way to load ebooks onto your iPhone. There were two things missing from the old Books.app and one was an annotation function(…)

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Fictionwise’s eReader Available as an iPhone App for the New Iphones

Jul 10 2008

Fictionwise’s eReader Available as an iPhone App for the New Iphones

Apple’s AppStore is live and there are a couple of free ebook readers including Fictionwise’s eReader. According to the description, eReader allows for “direct wireless transfers of your content to the device’s internal storage for offline reading.” This says to me that you’ll be able to buy from Fictionwise directly from the iPhone just like(…)

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Jun 9 2008

All My Books Software Library Free for Today

Giveaway of the Day is giving away “All My Books”, a software program designed to help organize your library. All My Books grabs information about the book from the Internet when you enter the title or ISBN number. You must download and install the program before June 9, 2008, in order to obtain the program(…)

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The Perfect E Reader Device

Jan 13 2008

The Perfect E Reader Device

From Apple Insider and Artist AudioPollution. The annual Consumer Electronics Show just wrapped up this weekend. There were plenty of televisions, cameras, and mp3 players. There were no new ebook readers. The only possible ebook news that came out of CES was the firm, but virtually meaningless statement by Sony that it was showing “reflowable”(…)

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