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The blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., the content marketing, strategy and media company founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of the wiki, SmallBusiness.com.
RexBlog.com was created in August, 2000.
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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 Hammock 20th Anniversary Guides to Content that Works
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, this year marks the 20th anniversary of Hammock Inc., the company that provides me the keyboard on which I type these blog posts. Since I don’t blog a lot about what we do … Continue reading
Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson
[Note to reader: If the word asshole offends you, stop reading now. Also, this post is about three-times longer than my typical post and only slightly shorter than the book I'm reviewing.] Open Walter Issacson’s book, Steve Jobs, to any … Continue reading
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The book that launched a thousand spoilers
Sometime during the next few hours, readers will be able to start downloading the biography, Steve Jobs, by Walter Issacson, the most anticipated new book since, well, whatever the name of the last Harry Potter book was. While I didn’t … 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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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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Does Apple really want to have a “no links to your local bookstore” rule?
Apple has just done something that I would have previously believed impossible: They have given independent booksellers and Amazon a reason to join forces. A common enemy often does that. Many years ago, when Barnes & Noble attempted to purchase … Continue reading
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That Apple eBook story just doesn’t pass the smell test
A story appearing in the New York Times today that’s headlined, Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store, contains one of those speculative paragraphs that makes the tech blogosphere explode. Here’s the paragraph: “Apple told Sony that from now … Continue reading
@R-Hack: If an iPad app has no copy and paste feature, “OCR” a screen grab
I’m a fan of the Kindle ebook reader iPad app. However, like the other popular ebook reader app for DRM‘d books, Apple’s iBooks, the Kindle app lacks a feature that is essential for those who read ebooks in the context … Continue reading
The longest tail: If a tree falls in the Amazon rain forest,,,
Quote from the conclusion of a wonkish, but fascinating, paper by a three-professor team who first explored “the long tail” of Amazon in 2003 using data from 2000. This paper explores data from 2008 and compares it to their earlier … Continue reading
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You, too, can be an ebook publisher
Like the New York-centric consumer magazine industry, commercial book publishers and, frankly, most everyone, thinks of books found in bookstores and libraries when they consider what book publishing is. Perhaps, they’ll concede there are some independent book publishers out there … Continue reading
Asking the wrong question: Will Tablets Close the Book on e-Readers?
On the “Knowledge @Wharton” website, a recently posted commentary poses this question in the headline: “Will Tablets Close the Book on e-Readers?” That’s the wrong question. (And I’m even overlooking my belief that any headline in the form of a … Continue reading
Penguin demonstrates how to use “agency pricing” to kill sales of a book’s digital version
[Screen shot: Note the price of the digital version of the book (the "Kindle edition") is over $9 higher than the hardcover version of the book; a pricing decision dictated by the publisher and not Amazon, usingthe so-called "agency model" … Continue reading
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If you’re into Soviet-era eastern bloc industrial design, you’ll love the Kindle application for the Mac
As I’m a Kindle owner who reads a lot of books, and who uses the the Kindle iPhone app while waiting in lines or when I need a screen with back-lighting (let’s say, when ones wife says, “can you turn … Continue reading
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The eBook pricing debate attracts fuzzy math
As the saying goes, if you can’t baffle them with brilliance, then befuddle them with math. Actually, that’s not the way the saying goes, but in this case, the math being “composited” (or should that be, “composted”) and the way … Continue reading
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