Publishing NewsAmazon / cloud / Daniel Keyes / Fire / NSA / obituaries / Satire / security / SFF / Smartphone / YouTube2 Comments
Amazon’s Fire phone has average looks and high aspirations (hands-on) – Well, some of the reviews are in, and they’re not exactly glowing. If the Amazon Fire phone were a serious contender to overthrow the iPhone, I might consider it. But a phone that doesn’t even have Bluetooth (It has Bluetooth ... more >
Publishing Newscloud / returns / Smashwords39 Comments
Smashwords Integrates with Dropbox for Faster eBook Delivery to Tablets and Smart Phones – Smashwords is offering dropbox integration that will allow your books to be saved to your Dropbox account. Smashbox will transfer epub, mobi, and PDF to the dropbox account and then you’ll be able to access your ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / cloud / Jeff Bezos / newspaper / Simon & Schuster10 Comments
Amazon founder Bezos to buy Washington Post – I heard some backchat on Twitter joking about Amazon buying HarperCollins and I thought, that seems silly. Bezos doesn’t need a publishing house. He’s created his own. But why, then, did Jeff Bezos buy the Washington Post and other properties? Forbes says ... more >
Ebookscloud / security34 Comments
In light of the David Petraeus scandal, we learned that an existing law enacted in 1986 allows law enforcement entitties to obtain your entire cloud based storage without a warrant. This means that your information is only as secure as the third party deems it to be private. If they ... more >