Category Archives: kindle2

Readers Boycotting Kindle Titles Priced Above $9.99

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Andrew Savikas

Pricing is a red-hot topic among publishers when it comes to ebooks. As I said in a Q&A for Forbes.com last week, cost-driven pricing (especially when the costs in question are calculated based on printed output) is a poor approach for ebook publishers. Readers simply don’t care how much it costs a publisher to produce an ebook — they only care how much it’s worth to them. (This is especially true for the iPhone, where books must compete alongside games, music, movies, and other “apps” primarily priced well below $10.) Continue reading →

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Jakob Nielsen: Kindle Content Must be Kindle-Specific

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Mac Slocum

Jakob Nielsen offers an in-depth look at Kindle formatting best practices: For Kindle, it’s certainly unacceptable to simply repurpose print content. But you can’t repurpose website content, either. For… Continue reading →

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At TOC: Video from Yesterday’s Kindle Announcement

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Andrew Savikas

Courtesy of Phil Torrone at makezine.com, here’s video from yesterday’s Kindle announcement:… Continue reading →

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Amazon Announces Kindle 2

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Mac Slocum

I’ve got just enough time between TOC tutorial sessions for a quick Kindle 2 post. As anticipated, Amazon unveiled Kindle 2 this morning. The $359 update is thinner (0.36… Continue reading →