May 17 2012
Sometime yesterday, Monica Jackson passed away due to complications of surgery. Monica was a fierce defender of African American authors and multicultural books. Her voice will be missed in our community. News 7-inch iPad on track for October 2012 release, $200 to $250 price | iMore – “Apple will be going forward with the 7-inch [...]
Mar 29 2012
Amazon Fire Refurb for $139 BN is still offering its Nook Color for $129. Throw a Nook Touch on for $20 Mark Coker has provided substantive information to the DOJ arguing that agency pricing does not lead to increased prices in books. It’s also fallacy to believe that somehow the wholesale pricing model is the savior [...]
Feb 21 2012
Sarah Wendell attended Tools of Change and has two round up post. Post 1 Post 2. This post had interesting information about Goodreads. One thing that caught my eye was this: “Angela James asked during the Q&A what the minimum threshold of ratings a book needed to have in order to be added to the [...]
Jan 9 2012
News BN and People are offering a subsidized Nook in exchange for a subscription to People magazine. The Nook edition of People is $9.99 a month; with a one-year subscription, customers will receive a Nook Tablet, a color device with a 7-inch display, for $199, a discount from its regular price of $249. Customers who [...]
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 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 [...]
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 14 2011
The Kindle devices have been released to the media and there are a few reviews. Of the Fire, reviewers say the it is easy to access Amazon content and if all you want to do is consume media rather than create, the Fire is probably the right kind of device for you, particularly at the [...]
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 4 2011
Updated on November 7, 2011, to reflect the release of the Nook Talbet. Price decreases of the other nooks include: Nook Touch $99 Nook Color $199 Kindle Fire Kobo Vox Nook Color Nook Tablet Screen 7″ multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 [...]
Oct 30 2011
Introduction Organizing your books on the Kindle device is one of the greatest struggles (and one of the greatest flaws) of the Kindle devices. I admit to not being encouraged by Kindle Fire screenshots that user organization will be improved with the new devices. This screenshot, for example, shows only the standard sorting features. About [...]
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 10 2011
USA Today launched a blog devoted to romances. Huzzah! Author Joyce Lamb, a copy editor for the paper and author of romantic suspenses published by Berkley, heads up the blog. Mandi S is one of the reviewers. Her blog is here. Other readers and authors will be contributing. It’s great to see positive coverage of [...]
Oct 3 2011
As you will have heard, author Sandra Hyatt (Hyde) died suddenly a few weeks ago. A trust has now been set up in her memory, it’s aim to support a NZ-based romance writer going to a conference here or overseas. Link: http://www.sandrahyatt.com/sandra-hyde-memorial-trust/. ***** Someone is having trouble separating fact from fiction but I’m not convinced [...]
Sep 28 2011
Amazon held its press conference today to launch a new line of Kindles. Kindle Touch 3G $189/$149 The $149 is with special offers that appear as screensavers. Free 3G wireless, no annual contracts or monthly fees. Learn more Download books anywhere, no hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots 3G wireless works globally Most-advanced E Ink display, [...]
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