Kindle and PRS-700 compared
The Amazon Kindle Review has started a comparison of these two machines. The author hopes the comparison will continue to be filled out in the comments section. While not unbiased, as...
Dumping DRM is not a panacea
As I’ve watched the e-book market develop, I’ve gradually lost a good deal of patience with the argument that DRM is the thing keeping people locked into the Amazon Kindle ecosystem....
Weekend Links: I was going to review some tablets, but… Scalzi on NaNoWriMo
I Was Going to Review Some Tablets... (Dear Author)
So, here is my review: Amazon is winning the sales war because they are better at business. Period.
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Amazon Exec: We Priced the Fire...
New Associates Page Suggests Amazon May Be About to Unleash Powerful Force in Marketing...
We won't jump the gun on what we find on the Amazon website (at least in this case) until an announcement is made, but it is too pretty a picture not...
Rick Chapman lays into Amazon advocates, KDP pricing strategy
Indie science fiction author and business book writer Rick Chapman has unleashed a long diatribe against Amazon's pricing model for Kindle Direct Publishing, which does make some valid points - although they're...
The Authors Guild backs Macmillan in Amazon fracas
In an article on their site entitled The Right Battle at the Right Time, The Authors Guild says that the Amazon/Macmillan fight is "... a necessary one for the industry". ...
Amazon gets AT&T to sponsor 3G ad-supported Kindle, drops price to $139
Big news just now from Amazon. AT&T has joined the retailer as a "sponsor"—no details yet on what that entails—for the Kindle 3G with Special Offers model. This ad-supported version of...
Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader beats Apple restrictions
That was Electricpig's headline last night, which was to the point. Kindle for Web to the RescueShould Cloud Reader be sporting a cape? For now, it can fly only in Google Chrome...
Morning Roundup: Google Play Books in Norway but without local titles. Amazon’s dramatic shift...
Google Play Books May Have Launched in Norway, But You Can't Find Norwegian Books There (The Digital Reader)
Google may have launched a local Play Books store in Norway a couple weeks...
Interview: Small press author Phil Geusz on cross-platform e-book sales figures
In light of the recent discussion about selling Amazon-exclusive versus cross-platform, I reached out to my friend, small-press published author Phil Geusz, to ask him about his sales experiences with Amazon...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
