Early yesterday morning I brought you the news that Amazon appeared to have opened the Android Appstore to international customers. I quickly got confirmation from a friend in the Netherlands and from a tech blog in India. Reports then followed which confirmed access from UK, Canada, South Africa, Venezuela, Finland, Australia, Romania, and a dozen [...]
Entries from September 20th, 2011
New Free Kindle Game from Amazon – Pirate Stash
September 19th, 2011 · No Comments · kindle app
I’ve just come across a new free game that you can play on the Amazon Kindle. Amazon released it today because it has a pirate theme and what better way to celebrate International Talk like a Pirate Day? Pirate Stash is based on a timeless puzzle game that never gets old. Your goal is to [...]
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Pubslush Brings Crowd-sourcing to the Slush Pile
September 19th, 2011 · No Comments · publishing news
A new publishing service launched a couple weeks back and it promises to let the readers decide what titles get published. Pubslush Press see themselves as a traditional publisher, only they are introducing a new twist to the publishing process. Rather than have a handful of insiders sort through the slushpile, they plan to let [...]
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GrabMyBooks is the New & Best way to Copy Webpages to your E-reader
September 19th, 2011 · No Comments · ebook tools
Liz Castro has tipped me to this great new way to download and convert webpages. It’s called GrabMyBooks. It’s a Firefox plug-in that functions kinda like dotEpub, only it’s better. GrabMyBooks will not only get the content from a webpage, it will also let you combine several pages into one. And it gets better. You [...]
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Things We Never Told You: Ode to a Bookstore Death
September 19th, 2011 · 7 Comments · humor
Borders may be dead now, but the booksellers at one store got in one last swipe at the customers. Someone posted this sign in a Borders store in the last few days before it closed. The massive list reflects the years of pent up frustration and ager at hearing the same thing from customers week [...]
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iPhone 5 CPU Leaked?
September 19th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware rumors
There’s reports coming out of Cina this morning that pictures have leaked to a Chinese gadget blog. They supposedly show the CPU of the next the iPhone, which is due out in the next few months.
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What Good Are Ebook “Daily Deals” & Other Deep Discounts?
September 19th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
I admit it. I check Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal every day. Every single day. Why? As a publisher I’m curious to see what they’re offering and as a consumer I don’t want to miss out on a great deal. (In the spirit of full disclosure, at O’Reilly Media we offer an ebook or video deal-of-the-day [...]
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Updated: Amazon Appstore Expands to Australia, Netherlands, India – Elsewhere?
September 19th, 2011 · 36 Comments · Amazon, app store news
I’ve just gotten word from an Australian gadget blog I follow that Amazon have quietly expanded their Android Appstore to include Australia. It’s not mentioned on their support pages, so I’m still waiting for confirmation. My source reports that they successfully installed the Appstore client and registered it with their existing (Australian) Amazon account. This [...]
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Daily Deal: Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5″ Android tablet now $170 on Woot
September 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Daily deals
Woot has Samsung’s latest 5″ Android tablet on sale today, and while Woot rarely has a great price on gadgets, this sale is the exception. The Samsung Galaxy S WiFi is a 5″ media player with 8GB Flash storage, a microSD card slot, Wifi/Bluetooth, a pair of camera (VGA & 3.2MP w/flash), mic/speaker/headphone jack, and [...]
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BookieJar now the First Self-Pub Platform to Offer Autographed Ebooks
September 17th, 2011 · 3 Comments · autograph
BookieJar announced last night that they’ve taken the step that I’ve been waiting to see since May: readers can now use BookieJar to request an autograph from authors. I’m thrilled to see this move and in fact I’ve been wondering what took everyone so long. When I attended BEA 2011 back in May I encountered [...]
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