Recent reports via The Nikkei indicate that Amazon will finally be bringing their bestselling Kindle eReader line to Japan in April of this year with their newest model, the Kindle Touch 3G. It will carry a 20,000 yen price tag (~260USD), which seems a bit high compared to what the same model is going for [...]
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Kindle Touch Will Launch Amazon’s eBook Efforts in Japan This April
Posted by on February 24th, 2012
What Impact will Kindle Library Lending Have on E-book Sales?
Posted by on December 4th, 2011
If you follow the e-book publisher news, you might have seen some mention of the major publisher Penguin Group’s decision to take away, then restore their titles to OverDrive. OverDrive is used by many libraries to deliver e-books to their patrons. States including North Carolina have a digital library that is run through OverDrive, and [...]
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Tags: eBook, Impact, Kindle, Lending, Library, Sales 
No Comments »Kindle Cloud Reader Frees The eBook From The App
Posted by on September 6th, 2011
Kindle Cloud Reader Following the recent move by Apple to cripple any iBooks competition via billing requirements, it really isn’t much of a surprise to see Amazon pushing the Kindle Cloud Reader to what seems like it might be an early release. What is surprising is how functional it is at launch and how familiar [...]
Kindle Store Success May Indicate Percieved eBook Value Beyond Simple Savings
Posted by on July 7th, 2011
Something that most early adopters of the Kindle were eager to see was the impressive price drops that eBooks promised to bring. Compared to the expense of creating, transporting, and retailing a paper book, how could the eBook not make large libraries an inexpensive pursuit? To a certain extent, of course, we did see this [...]
Can the Amazon Kindle eBook Compare to the Endurance of the Printed Word?
Posted by on June 21st, 2011
The Amazon Kindle is great and all, but for many lovers of the printed word there is something still lacking. The History. We can download the newest books to our Kindles and forget about them. We can collect and delete and have no real need to take them seriously because they have no substance anyway. [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Compare, eBook, Endurance, Kindle, Printed, Word No Comments »Catch a Cheating Spouse! – E-book Review
Posted by on May 17th, 2011
Catch a cheating spouse is probably the premier guide on how to prove the innocence or guilt of your partner on the Internet. The author Sarah Paul has become something of a celebrity because of this downloadable guide appearing in Psychology Today and also on E!. While celebrity credentials can often appear dubious Sarah backs [...]
Breakup Repair and Fixing a Breakup – Relationship Saver e-Book Review
Posted by on May 3rd, 2011
Over the weekend I have the time to do a e-book review of what is called a relationship saver e-book. With a relationship on the rocks and people looking for solutions on breakup repair online these days, you now have perhaps thousands of options at your fingertips. The truly awesome fact of the matter is [...]
Kindle E-book Reviews
Posted by on April 17th, 2011
So you have purchased your own Kindle. Now your question would likely be what’s in store for me? Your Kindle machine is capable of playing mp3s and at the same time browsing the internet through WiFi connection or 3G. Of course, other than the music you can store on your machine, the main attraction of [...]
How to publish a Kindle eBook
Posted by on November 23rd, 2010
So, you’ve written a book? Congratulations. Whether it’s the work of years or simply your latest NaNoWriMo entry, it was almost certainly a difficult and demanding project that it would be great to get some recognition for. Sure, you can go through the traditional routes and send out your manuscript to the publishing houses in [...]
