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Amazon issues an update of the Kindle version of Issacson’s Steve Jobs book
Here’s a first for me. I received an email overnight from Amazon telling me that I can update the Kindle version of the book, Steve Jobs, by Walter Issacson [My review; my shared highlights and notes made while reading the … Continue reading
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The Kindle Fire vs. the Apple iPad isn’t really a vs.
Starting this week, customers start receiving the new 7″ touch-screen Android device from Amazon called the Kindle Fire. As with anything that suggests a company could challenge Apple in a market it dominates, I predict you will be subjected to … Continue reading
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CueCat 9.0
After a decade of research, the scientists at Amazon.com’s A9 subsidiary may have finally solved the Cuecat conjecture, the e-shopping equivalent of math’s unsolvable Riemann hypothesis. The Cuecat conjecture, named for the most spectacularly awful gadget to ever burn through … Continue reading
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Kindle for Mac app gets even better
Recently, I blogged that the Kindle for Mac application (app) is the best way to read a book in the context of research (for example, if you’re a student or author doing research). Today, Amazon updated the software with more features … Continue reading
These Kindle Fire children’s books are not just ebooks, they’re apps
When the Hammock children, both now over two-decades old, were brand new, they were never more than a few inches away from an Eric Carle book. (The Very Hungry Caterpillar* is likely the book I have read out-loud more times … Continue reading
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The best Kindle Reader for students and researchers is, what, a Mac?
If, like me, you do lots of highlighting and note-taking while reading a book, or if book-reading and note-taking are a part of your professional work-flow (students and researchers of any kind, for example), the frustration of not being able … Continue reading
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Competition is good: Bring back the iRex
This post is for those among the 12 people who read this blog who heard about the new Kindle Fire* by reading it in your local daily newspaper and who are likely seeing this about a week after it was written, … Continue reading
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Apple kills Kindle App’s link to Amazon.com, here’s what you can do to create your own
If you’re just now joining this on-going story (a tale from the farce genre), you may be wondering why such the big deal over Apple making Amazon remove from its Kindle App (iOS version) a link to the web-based Amazon.com … Continue reading
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More great news about Goldilocks non-fiction
[credit] It’s somewhat ironic that “short” and “long” are both being used to describe a length of non-fiction writing that I believe will change book and magazine publishing as significantly as anything we’ve seen since Amazon.com first came online. “Long” … Continue reading
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My guess is that Apple’s App Tax got Choked in the Legal Library by Professor Amazon
On the Peter Kafka post at All Things D, the headline reads, “Steve Jobs Blinks! Apple Backs Down on App Subscription Rules.” I’m guessing that Steve Jobs blinked, but only after the “invisible hand of the market” choked it (the … Continue reading
Jeff Bezos wants to be the -killer -killer
Back in 2009, I wrote a blog post called, “I suggest bloggers kill the word kill in subject lines,” in which I repeated my long-held pet rant about the use of the hyphenated -kill or -killer by bloggers and tech-writers. … Continue reading
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I’m sorry too: Apple Has Put iFlow Reader Out of Business
As I’ve said many times on this blog, when it comes to ebook reader apps, I’m a loyal user of the Kindle App on the iPad. However, the only ebook reader that I’ve tried that displayed creativity and unique insight … Continue reading
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Why Jon Meacham’s ebook is better because he’s no longer at Newsweek
Former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, when not writing cover essays for Time magazine, is now an executive vice president at Random House. Today, Meacham and Random House released something that I, as both a reader and professional magazine-geek, believe is … Continue reading
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Amazon fails, big time
Back in the early days of Amazon, around 1995 or so, a friend of mine placed an order that got botched. He mailed a letter (not email, but the real kind) to Jeff Bezos and never heard back: no acknowledgement, … Continue reading
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You decide: Jane Austen with appendicitis or an Oil of Olay offer
On May 3, Amazon will start shipping the “Kindle with Special Features,” a $114 wifi-enabled Kindle ebook reader. The device costs $25 less than the technically-identical $139 Kindle model, the “special features” being money-saving coupon offers that show up as … Continue reading
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