Round up #76: free audiobook, free serious lit, docks, solar Running Wilde, running free Thanks to MysteryL in the Amazon Kindle community for the heads-up on this! You can get a free audiobook from Audible right now: http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B007PE2WJ6 It’s actually a performance (rather than a book reading) of the Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. [...]
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Round up #75: In-app buys, Best Buy, can Amazon compete with Google? The ILMK Round ups are short pieces which may or may not be expanded later. Best Buy Bye-Bye Star Tribune article I remember when it seemed like a stamp of legitimacy that Best Buy was carrying Kindles. Now, that brick-and-mortar is closing 50 stores…and [...]
Round up #74: Fire update coming, global Touch Amazon touches the world…all over As of yesterday, the Kindle Touch 3G, Free 3G + Wi-Fi is available for pre-order (for release on April 27) in 175 countries. press release What, you thought they’d had it all along? The Mindle has done very well abroad, apparently, ranking highly. The addition of [...]
Round up #73: Amazon and accessibility, Random (House) raises rates The ILMK Round ups are short pieces which may or may not be expanded later. Nice to have two alliterative phrases in the headline. Random House raises library e-book rates…200% ““We’re happy they are continuing to sell to libraries, very happy,” Oberhausen said. “But this price [...]
Round up #72: B&N CFO, E-cyclopaedia Britannica, win an EBR The ILMK Round ups are short pieces which may or may not be expanded later. Encyclopaedia Britannica ends print edition It is the year 1768. The Declaration of Independence for the United States of America is still eight years away. In Scotland, the first part of [...]
Round up #71: Color overlay, color Kindle, bye-bye keyboard? ComputerAct!ve: “Kindle cover to help people with dyslexia” ComputerAct!ve article It’s interesting to me that there are still a lot of things we don’t know. There are different approaches to that. We can try to figure out why something should be true, and then test it. [...]
Round up #70: what I read where, Android gets Real Page Numbers, buy a couch and get a free Kindle Fire The ILMK Round ups are short pieces which may or may not be expanded later. Kindle for Android updated with Real Page Numbers I had heard there was an update to Kindle for Android, which [...]
Round up #69: ??, Kindle! I’ll be interested to hear if you are able to see the characters in that headline. I’ll probably check it on my Kindle Fire and on my Touch and maybe my Mindle. CIOL: “Amazon.com to launch Kindle in Japan“ The key rumor here is that Amazon may be launching the Kindle in [...]
Round up #68: WG2E, ABA boycotts Amazon, 9″ KF? The ILMK Round ups are short pieces which may or may not be expanded later. CNET: “Amazon readying 9-inch Kindle Fire for 2012, analyst predicts“ We’re going to hear a lot of predictions going forward about what Amazon may do with the next hardware we see from [...]
Round up #67: Goodreads, International Touch?, plagiarism The ILMK Round ups are short pieces which may or may not be expanded later. Kindle Touch goes international? There are several stories out there (including a link sent to me by a reader of mine in a private e-mail) that the Kindle Touch, Wi-Fi only is now available internationally. Interestingly, [...]
