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Amazon K3 best selling product in Amazon’s history

December 27th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

But what does that actually mean? From the press release: Amazon.com today announced that the third-generation Kindle is now the bestselling product in Amazon’s history, eclipsing “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7).” The company also announced that on its peak day, Nov. 29, customers ordered more than 13.7 million items worldwide across all [...]

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Asus DR-900 product page now live

November 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news, Sipix

Asus have updated the product page for their 9″ Sipix screen e-reader. At this point I’d say that it doesn’t really matter; we already knew most everything on the page. The DR-900 is based on a 9″ Sipix screen (1024 x 768 resolution) with a capacitive touchscreen. It has 2GB Flash, a microSD card slot, [...]

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Product placement in 19th Century British novels (humor)

September 7th, 2010 · No Comments · humor

Normally I’d just link to an aritcle like this ,but I’ve already seen this reported as fact. The following is a joke, but the satire is subtle. I don’t want you to think I’m taking this seriously. There’s an article in today’s Seattle PI about the first in-book advertisements: What is little known is just [...]

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How not to promote your product

June 7th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion, press release

Someone posted a link to a press release in a comment. The press release is interesting, but there is a bigger story in how they’re promoting it. Here is the press release, BTW. Geleon Consulting announced a new platform  that I’d describe as social media meets ebook reading (like Copia). I read the press release. [...]

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