Monday News: Nook Tablet rumors; Kindle Serials; 50 Shades irony; Kindle Fires are with ads
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New Rumors Suggest New Nook Tablet Coming This Month – Nate pulls together a number of rumors regarding the upcoming Nook tablet. Purportedly it will run Windows 8 instead of a forked Android system which would make sense given the Microsoft partnership. The screen resolution is to be sharper and the processor zippier. The real problem as of yet is the lack of content. Amazon has videos, music and books. Ditto with Apple and Google. For any tablet to succeed, it will need to provide easy access to content. So far, B&N hasn’t delivered on anything but apps and books. The Digital Reader
Amazon Media Room: Press Releases – Remember the article I wrote about the rise of the serial a couple of weeks ago? Apparently Amazon thinks there is a market for serials as well. It has launched Kindle Serials. You buy at one price and every installment is automatically added to your file. The introductory price for the 8 serials is $1.99 each. I’m not sure how much the price of the non introductory serials will be but one has to assume more than $1.99. Amazon Press Release
Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James threatens party planner with legal action – A woman wanted to throw 50 Shades theme parties, sell lingerie and give out tips. E.L James got wind of this and had her lawyers send out a cease and desist notice. Says her agent without any irony ““You can’t just hijack something someone else owns.” Somehow I think this type of attitude basically begs for something karmically bad to befall you. Mirror Online
All Kindle Fires sold to US customers will have home screen ads | Ars Technica – Amazon is making all US Fire owners see ads on their lock screens and home screens. It’s likely why Amazon can afford to sell you the Fire HD for only $199. Amazon will allow you to opt out of this service for $15. Ars Technica
Every single time I think human beings can not possibly get any dumber someone proves me wrong.
@joanne: But she totally changed it from the fanfic version, so it must be an original work – not at all hijacked. (:rolleyes:)
*headdesk* Just when I thought I’d heard it all, I’m proved wrong.
James and her agent seem a bit short sighted to me. I wonder who has the merchandizing rights? If James still owns them then she should consider creating a franchise and charge the woman plus a percentage of her profits.
Yeah, I snickered. Good luck with that, legal team.
I already have the most souped up Nook; not sure if I should feel bad about not having a Windows operating system- has anyone ever felt bad about not having Windows?- but I would LOVE more content. I mean, how about even Spotify, you know?
Don’t legal teams have minions whose task it is to alert them to irony?
I saw that James story last week and thought it was like an Onion story. It’s for real? Not a hoax?
So James has plans to become the Mary Kay of BDSM? Any guesses on what make and model of red car the top salespeople will get? __________ (insert your preferred form of maniacal laughter here).
Two weeks after I bought my nook tablet they dropped the price. If they seriously release a new and better version next month I will be so unamused.
I got one of the free Dickens Kindle Serials (they currently have The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist). I read the 1st installment of the Pickwick Papers in one sitting–a very nice, digestible chunk and a pleasant way to read Dickens. I think the Dickens ones are using the original serialization chapters, too. I like the pacing and approach for classics, but I tend to gulp modern works so I don’t know what others I’ll try.
I am incapable of being surprised by that woman’s chutzpah.
I’ve had my Nook Tablet for awhile now. I rooted it right after I bought it. For all intents and purposes, it’s no different now than any Android based tablet. I have almost everything available in Play unless it’s for Jelly Bean. And I did it with the SD card, not internally. So if I want to run the BN stock system, I just switch out the cards.
I have yet to find a comparable unit in the price point BN is selling in, but will see when the new model comes out. Oh, wait! What am I thinking? It will run Windows. I will run as far as possible…
And I’m still laughing hysterically over the whole 50 Shades thing now. You can’t fix stupid fits so well here…
I realize some people dislike ads, but really, the ads on the Kindle ereaders are totally ignorable. They aren’t on the screen when you’re reading, just on the screensaver and a a small ad on the “home” page. The Fire ads might be different than the Kindle ads I get, but I haven’t once been bothered by them. I purposely chose the Kindle with ads for the lower price and haven’t regretted it.