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Posts Tagged ‘Smartphone’

Text Messaged Books Are All the Rage in Japan

By Jane • Dec 4th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

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What has Rin, a preschool teacher in Japan, done that thousands of authors, both in print and aspiring, haven’t? Sold 400,000 copies of a hardcover book that contains a story she gave away for free.
Rin (a pseudonym) writes books via her cellular phone. Her audience is primarily the [...]



Make Your Blog Mobile

By Jane • May 27th, 2007 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

I installed the Alex King mobile plugin at Sybil’s blog (The Good, The Bad, The Unread) a week ago because I was tired of trying to access it from my smart phone and having to wait five years for the home page to load. According to Business Week, 80 million smart phones were shipped [...]



1 in 4 Teens Will Buy an Iphone: Will Publishers Meet this New Market?

By Jane • Apr 11th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

When Steve Jobs announced the IPhone earlier this year, I was mesmerized. It looked cool and revolutionary even if it really wasn’t. I’m not alone in my IPhone lust. Piper Jaffray released a survey that showed 84% of teens are aware of the Apple Iphone and [...]



Multifunction v. Dedicated Ebook Reader & Samhain Giveaway

By Jane • Aug 27th, 2006 • Category: Ebooks, Misc

The lads at Gearlog and Teleblog are great believers of multi function devices. Multi function devices do it all: it’s a cell phone, camera, calendar, contact, ebook reader all in one. Gearlog opines that the reason that women tend to buy a cell phone separate from a PDA is the ubiquitous purse. Of [...]