November 19, 2013

Tuesday News: Amazon software update to Fires bring Collections; Valve’s Steam OS platform could pose a big(ger) threat beyond games; and yet another reason why Australia is frightening

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / cloud computing / Kindle / Valve8 Comments

Why Valve’s SteamOS Could Be Revolutionary – Information Weeks posits that Steam OS may be the next entertainment platform. Valve, the parent company of Steam, pioneered ownership of digital products by assigning each digital product a unique ID and then allowing the resale of digital products by the resale of ... more >

JanePublishing News3D Printing / Barnes & Noble / cloud computing8 Comments

How Barnes & Noble Overlooks Its Biggest Asset – Forbes suggests Barnes & Noble become a showroom for internet companies such as the high end fashion coops like Gilt Groupe to hand crafted items from Etsy sellers. It’s not a bad idea in concept but could easily become on of ... more >

December 27, 2012

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

JanePublishing Newscloud computing / ebook software / Privacy-issues13 Comments

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 ... more >

September 6, 2012

Thursday News: Rumors of an Amazon Phone; Creepy HS BBall Coach provides a first amendment dilemma; Bob Kohn argues that he is a special snowflake

JanePublishing NewsAgency pricing / Amazon / cloud computing / lawsuits / piracy32 Comments

Exclusive: Amazon phone confirmed, could be announced tomorrow – Today is Amazon’s day to announce new products. Woo woo. (Apple will announce a new iPhone in September and reportedly a mini iPad in October. BN is said to announce new products at the end of the month). While most reports ... more >

August 23, 2011

Tuesday midday links: lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits

JanePublishing NewsAgency pricing / cloud computing / lawsuits / Recommended Reads25 Comments

Booklamp.org is up and running. Booklamp professes  to be a Pandora for books.   It does not have much content for romances. It looks to be publisher specific.  Random House and Simon & Schuster have books and authors present but Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette do not.  Harlequin also seems absent. ... more >

July 24, 2011

Create Your Own Cloud of Ebooks with Calibre + Calibre OPDS + Dropbox

JaneEbooksCalibre / cloud computing / iPhone / Stanza224 Comments

This post has been updated as of October 16, 2011.   ***** Apple appears to have pushed Google out of the ebookstore.  Kobo released an updated app with no buy link.  Google is randomly deleting Google Plus accounts.  Yet another ebook format has been announced.  I’m getting pretty fed up ... more >