Amazon is introducing an advertising component to the Kindle platform. I love it. Kudos to Jeff Bezos & Co. for their forward thinking on this initiative. I’m talking about the less expensive ($114) device currently known as “Kindle with Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers.” (It’s not the sexiest name but it certainly describes the product! [...]
Entries Tagged as 'good'
Smashwords: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
March 9th, 2011 · 10 Comments · opinion
Smashwords is one of my favorite ebookstores. I probably buy more ebooks there than from any other ebookstore. A lot of that has to do with price, but it also has to do with my desire to find great reads from indie authors rather than supporting Agency 6 overpricing of ebooks. The good of Smashwords is that it [...]
Tags:bad·good·smashwords·ugly
REDGroup – A tale of hubris and the end of the good times
February 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · opinion, redgroup
by Darryl Adams I originally posted this over in the comments of the Delimiter REDGroup article. I think it answers most of what went wrong, but I do admit some of the conclusions I extrapolated from the data. My research on REDGroup is leading to me to think that it was the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) [...]
Piracy is Good – just ask Google
January 28th, 2011 · 6 Comments · opinion
A couple days ago Google started censoring the suggested search terms in their search engine. Do you know how you can type a few letters and Google will guess at words you’re about to type? Google will no longer suggest words like bittorrent, rapidshare, utorrent, etc. This censorship inspired me to pull out my notes [...]
Why it’s sometimes good for writers to build on each other’s work
January 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · opinion
by Chris Walter Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon writing out my idea for how fanfic and other writers could theoretically use digital technology to bypass copyright roadblocks. What inspired me was the recent story about an unauthorized sequel to “The Catcher in the Rye” that Salinger managed to quash in the U.S. before [...]
Does a Kindle make a good prison bribe? No, it does not.
January 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · humor
by Chris Walters The Los Angeles Times reported today that when a prison official returned from holiday vacation last month, she found a new Kindle on her desk. It had been given to her by Fabian Nuñez, former Assembly Speaker for California and father of inmate Esteban Nuñez, who is serving time for murder. The [...]
GoodEreader.com – your friendly neighborhood ebook pirate
October 21st, 2010 · 25 Comments · opinion
If you follow ebook news, you might have heard of a site called GoodEreader.com. At first glance it looks like a news site. It has a blog, podcast, and a monthly magazine, and they even opened an e-reader store last week. But all of that is all a facade that they are using to hide [...]
Tags:ebook·ereader·friendly·good·neighborhood·pirate·website
The Register of Copyrights is about to retire – now is a good time to panic
September 15th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
You’ve probably heard the news already that the head of the US Copyright Office plans to retire at the end of this year. What you might have missed is why you should care. Take a moment and think about who her replacement will be. Right now we have a Vice-President who has clearly bought in [...]
Good News for Readers: Amazon Might be Winning Its Battle with Traditional Publishers Over Prices
September 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news
by Stephen Windwalker While it has been increasingly clear over the past year that Amazon is dominating the market share and price wars among dedicated ebook reader devices, it is now clear that Amazon is also winning its tug of war with traditional book publishers over ebook pricing.
Tags:Amazon·battle·good·news·prices·publishers·readers·traditional·winning
Is WiFi-Only a good choice for $50 less?
August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · hardware reviews
by Andrys Basten At the Kindle forums, the question of whether or not a WiFi-only Kindle would be all that is needed was raised quite often this weekend, including by those who don’t seem to have a WiFi setup at home at this point.
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