The gift of the lower-end device
The new Amazon tablets fascinate me. I paid a little more for my new Android device, but if those $50 tablets were available in Canada, I would have bought one...
$50 Amazon Fire tablet plays well with OverDrive library app—which can read ePub from...
I asked earlier if any libraries might buy $50 Amazon tablets. The six-pack price without tax or shipping is just $250 or about $42 per device. Now the case for...
‘The top 10 books people lie about reading’: Dead white (nonRussian) males favored?
“Have you ever lied about reading a book?” asks conservative Ben Domenech in The Federalist. Here’s his list of the top 10 lied-about titles, as mentioned in an essay last year:...
‘Shockingly cheap’ $50 Fire tablet praised in Kindle Chronicles video review
https://youtu.be/2EH9z-BOzjA
"Short story: I like it! Except for slower downloading, this shockingly cheap tablet delivers the goods for video, games, and books." - Len Edgerly of the Kindle Chronicles podcast.
The TeleRead take: Can't...
No need to wait for $50 Fire from Amazon directly: Might be in stock...
Psst! You can butt in line, so to speak, if you've ordered a $50 Fire but Amazon now says it can't ship until late October due to heavy demand. Check stores like...
Risky for e-book lovers to ‘Bring your own’ to TracFone? Maybe other carriers, too?...
The horrors didn’t stop when I gave up on The TracFone Guy from Hell and moved on to other tech support reps.
Even after a replacement SIM card, my Nexus 6 still...
Is E gradually killing off standalone books? Are we too series-crazed now?
Would Moby-Dick or The Great Gatsby work out as a series? Well, to an extent, I can see possibilities. A book as long as Moby-Dick, some 206,000 words, could supply a...
Sigil e-book editor moves closer to full-strength ePub 3 editing via new pre-release. Plus,...
The people behind Sigil, the multiplatform e-book editor, are making progress toward their goal of adding “ePub3 support without disrupting ePub2 editing.” They’ve just released Sigil 0.8.900, a major overhaul,...
The TracFone Guy from Hell: Tech support rep gives Comcast a run for its...
E-books and cell phones are, yes, like peanut butter and jelly. But suppose the jelly at times is full of bacteria. That’s what I’m thinking in the wake of my encounter...
Inside the mind of BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti: Lessons for e-book writers and publishers?
A ratings-crazed TV executive in the movie Network gets a terrorist outfit to kill off an anchorman with a sagging viewership. Whatever works, huh? But in evaluating content, can’t we go...
AMAZON
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...
